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Finance & Services · GE consumer-finance lineage · separated 2015
GE Capital Retail Finance · Synchrony
Retail credit that became an independent financial company.
Vintage-style artistic recreation of GE's historic businesses.
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Business history
GE Capital’s U.S. retail-finance business became Synchrony Financial. An initial public offering of a minority stake took place in 2014.
GE completed the separation on November 17, 2015. Synchrony’s separation was distinct from the disposal of other GE Capital businesses.
Historical references
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Major products & innovations
- ✦ Retail credit
- ✦ Private-label credit cards
- ✦ Consumer financing
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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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Financing the appliances, and much more.
Most financial businesses divested; legacy insurance obligations retained.
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The kitchens and living rooms of generations.
Owned by Haier since 2016.