
Industrial & Electrical · Historical distribution business · sold 2006
GE Supply · Electrical Distribution
The warehouse counter for wire, conduit and switchgear.
Vintage-style artistic recreation of GE's historic businesses.
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Business history
GE Supply distributed electrical products—wire, conduit, lighting and control gear—to contractors and industrial customers across the United States.
Rexel acquired GE Supply for $725 million in 2006, with completion publicly reported on August 8, 2006. The business continued within Rexel’s distribution network; it was a distribution business, not a GE manufacturing division.
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Major products & innovations
- ✦ Electrical wire and cable
- ✦ Conduit and fittings
- ✦ Switchgear and controls
- ✦ Lighting products
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Heritage illustration

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Employee memories
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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
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