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Appliances & Consumer · 1892 lighting roots · consumer business sold 2020
GE Lighting
Where it all started: the light bulb.
Vintage-style artistic recreation of GE's historic businesses.
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Business history
Lighting connects GE directly to Edison's incandescent lamp work of 1879.
GE lamps lit homes, streets and stadiums for more than a century.
The consumer GE Lighting business was sold to Savant Systems on July 1, 2020; commercial lighting company Current was divested separately in 2019.
Historical references
Subsidiaries, acquisitions & joint ventures
Acquired · 1989 – 2018
Tungsram
Hungarian lamp maker. GE bought a majority stake starting in 1989.
Ownership outcome: Sold to management in 2018.
SourceMerged · 2020 – present
Savant ownership
GE sold GE Lighting to Savant Systems in 2020.
Ownership outcome: GE Lighting, a Savant company, uses the GE brand under licence.
Source
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Major products & innovations
- ✦ Incandescent lamps
- ✦ Fluorescent lighting
- ✦ LED lighting
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Heritage illustration
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Employee memories
No approved memories from GE Lighting yet. Be the first to share one.
Share your story05
GE Jokes
The sixth why
We asked the five whys. We found the root cause. Then the manager asked a sixth why.
We're still in that conference room.
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GE Garfield
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GE Motivational Quotes
No turbine was ever built by one person. Every one of those hands mattered.
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GE Legend Collectable Cards
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GE Honorable Mentions
Know someone from GE Lighting who deserves recognition — or is it your own story?
Nominate a GE legend10
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