OREANDA-NEWS. GE (NYSE: GE) announced today that it will hold its 2016 Annual Meeting of Shareowners on Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center in Jacksonville, Florida.  GE holds its shareowners meeting in a different city each year to illustrate the diversity of the company’s businesses and the strength of its portfolio.  

GE has more than 1,000 employees in Jacksonville and recently invested $70 million to develop a new GE Oil & Gas advanced manufacturing facility in the city. Current, powered by GE, and the City of Jacksonville are also collaborating to transform LED street lights into intelligent, connected devices through the company’s Intelligent Cities solution. Equipped with sensors and software, the LED fixtures leverage Predix (GE’s cloud-based platform for the Industrial Internet) to provide the city with valuable data and insights, as well as lower total energy costs.

GE (NYSE: GE) is the world’s Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. GE is organized around a global exchange of knowledge, the "GE Store," through which each business shares and accesses the same technology, markets, structure and intellect. Each invention further fuels innovation and application across our industrial sectors. With people, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for customers by speaking the language of industry.