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    UK paper brings GE respect to light

    Jan. 1, 2003
    GE has always been a favorite of stock investors and the mainstream business press in the U.S. Now the Financial Times, one of Great Britain's leading

    GE has always been a favorite of stock investors and the mainstream business press in the U.S. Now the Financial Times, one of Great Britain's leading financial newspapers, named General Electric Co., Fairfield, Conn., the most respected company in the world. In the newspaper's survey on corporate reputation polled more than 600 chief executives from 53 countries. GE drew more than twice the votes cast for any other company. The survey was conducted by Price Waterhouse Coopers. One chief executive officer who responded to the survey said that GE's recent past has been "a history of sustained growth and shareowner value."

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    Doug Chandler | Senior Staff Writer

    Doug has been reporting and writing on the electrical industry for Electrical Wholesaling and Electrical Marketing since 1992 and still finds the industry’s evolution and the characters who inhabit its companies endlessly fascinating. That was true even before e-commerce, LED lighting and distributed generation began to disrupt so many of the electrical industry’s traditional practices.

    Doug earned a BA in English Literature from the University of Kansas after spending a few years in KU’s William Allen White School of Journalism, then deciding he absolutely did not want to be a journalist. In the company of his wife, two kids, two dogs and two cats, he spends a lot of time in the garden and the kitchen – growing food, cooking, brewing beer – and helping to run the family coffee shop.

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