General Electric - a Fortune 500 Company: why They Continue to Be One of the Top 15 Fortune 500 Companies

General Electric Company is a diversified industrial corporation engaged in developing, manufacturing and marketing a wide variety of products for the generation, transmission, distribution, control and utilization of electricity. As a result of acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations, GE continues to be one of the top 15 Fortune 500 Companies.
GE describes itself as composed of a number of primary business units or "businesses." Each "business" is itself a vast enterprise, any of which would, even as a standalone company, rank in the Fortune 500. …