GEC
GEC or Gec may refer to: Education * Gedo Education Committee, in Somalia * Glen Eira College, in Caulfield East, Victoria, Australia * Goa Engineering College, India * Government Engineering College (other) * Guild for Exceptional Children, in New York City, US * Gwalior Engineering College, India Other uses * Aleksandar Gec (1928–2008), Serbian basketball player * General Electric Company, a former British engineering conglomerate * General entertainment channel, a type of TV or radio channel * Global Environment Centre, Malaysia * Golden Empire Council, of the Boy Scouts of America * ''Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana'', a Catalan-language encyclopedia * Greater Egyptian Conference, an athletics conference in Illinois, US * Green Electronics Council, US * Grêmio Esportivo Catanduvense, a former Brazilian football club * Grounding electrode conductor * Lufthansa Cargo, a German cargo airline, ICAO code * Mount GEC, in Jasper National Park, Canada * 100 Gecs, a mus ...
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General Electric Company
The General Electric Company (GEC) was a major British industrial conglomerate involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications, and engineering. The company was founded in 1886, was Britain's largest private employer with over 250,000 employees in the 1980s, and at its peak in the 1990s, made profits of over £1 billion a year. In June 1998, GEC sold its share of the joint venture GEC-Alsthom on the Paris stock exchange. In December 1999, GEC's defence arm, Marconi Electronic Systems, was sold to British Aerospace, forming BAE Systems. The rest of GEC, mainly telecommunications equipment manufacturing, continued as Marconi Communications. After buying several US telecoms manufacturers at the top of the market, losses following the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001 led to the restructuring in 2003 of Marconi plc into Marconi Corporation plc. In 2005, Ericsson acquired the bulk of that company. What was left of the business was renamed Telent. History ...
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