GE no longer makes appliances. It’s a licensed out name now.
I figure their star finally fell when they stopped making locomotives. What kind of giant industrial conglomerate does that?! EveN Hitachi, a brand mostly known for marital aids, makes locomotives!
I use a lot of Japanese woodworking tools and hearing Hitachi outside of the context of steel production is always so confusing. They make some of the finest steels in the world, to be forged into unparalleled blades by master craftsmen and they also make “marital aids”.
GE, the conglomerate, no longer exists. They sold off most of the divisions and spun off the three remaining into their own business. GE Aerospace is the “corporate successor” but as of 2024, the old General Electric is no more.
There was a t-shirt back in the day with the mini-gun on it, the GE logo underneath, and in a circle around it, the logo “We bring good things to life”
Experts in making stuff that spins. Washing machines, autocannons, microwaves…
“It’s just G now, Jack. We sold the E to Samsung. They’re Samesung now.”
Inside you are two wolves. One is a cheap TV licensed to use your trademark. The other is nuclear weapons.
You are Westinghouse.
Don’t forget air brakes for cars and trains Westinghouse Airbrake aka Wabtec
If you just have two toaster ovens, You are Hamilton Beach.