Skip to main content

We expect global sales to be about 60 percent of YAHAM going forward

Rice has served customers, built partnerships and done deals around the world for more than 20 years.He will be responsible for all non-U.S. markets with particular emphasis on high-growth markets such as China, India, the Middle East and Brazil where he will accelerate LED Linear high bay light efforts to meet customer needs with GE’s leading technology and services. In many of these markets, this includes GE’s “company to country” growth strategy in which GE works directly with governments to meet local needs.

According to GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt, “We expect global sales to be about 60 percent of GE going forward. Our global growth has expanded by about 15 percent a year for most of the past decade and we expect it to continue in the future,”

Rice will oversee 12 integrated local organizations that will include business development, commercial teams, finance, led high bay light controllership and legal. This will include China, India, Southeast Asia, Latin/South America, Russia, Canada, Australia, the Middle East, Africa, Germany, Europe and Japan/Korea.

On the other hand, Nani Beccalli, who has successfully built GE’s global team for the past nine years, will continue to lead Europe, Japan and Korea reporting to Rice. Besides, Beccalli will build and lead a new “One YAHAM” approach in Germany, in which leaders from across GE’s businesses in that market report to Beccalli. GE established a similar “P&L” structure in India in 2009.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Only imaginations brought the ceremony

In 1923, families gathered around the radio to listen as President Calvin Coolidge lit the first National Christmas Tree. Only imaginations brought the ceremony, and the tree located in what is now President’s led linear high bay light , to life. Eighty-nine years later, families are still gathering to witness the lighting of the National Christmas Tree, but 21st century technology is giving them a front-row seat. At 4:30 p.m. ET on Dec. 1, GE Lighting, in conjunction with the National Park Foundation, an official charitable partner of America’s national parks and the National Park Service, invites families to gather around the laptop to watch as the National Christmas Tree come to life. GE Lighting has been designing the National Christmas Tree, and contributing its lighting and decorations for 49 years.  The design process usually begins only a few months after the previous year’s lighting on the National Christmas Tree is shut off, often starting in March or earlier. Thoug...
Post a Comment
Read more

In order to take maximum advantage of opportunities

Recently, China government promoted LED solid state lighting and listed Beijing as a level-one city for demonstration. Meanwhile, BOE's 8G plant scheduled to start mass production in 2011, LED backlight unit (BLU) demand from BOE was expected to surge. Additionally, Everlight was listed as one of BOE's backlighting suppliers. In order to take maximum advantage of opportunities, Everlight decided to set up a production plant in Beijing. Market sources noted, Currently all LED Linear high bay light notebook products were LED backlit. BOE's overall LED demand from its 5G and 6G plants was expected to exceed one billion chips in 2011, and to over seven billion chips when BOE's advanced production lines came online in the future. If BOE's 8G line fully adopted LED backlighting, BOE would need the support of about 20 LED production lines, or five billion LED chips per year, and generate CNY10 billion (US$1.5 billion) worth of industry value. The vertically-integrate...
Post a Comment
Read more

winners will be recognized with personalized plaques acknowledging their lighting design achievements

The Award for Environmental Design gives special recognition to projects that minimize the use of energy, maximize the use of daylighting, control light pollution, and ensure system durability and maintainability. All qualifying entrants will be invited to an awards ceremony, which will take place Monday, April 22, 2013, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, on the evening prior to the opening of LightFair International, the world’s largest annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference. At that time, all winners will be recognized with personalized plaques acknowledging their lighting design achievements. The identity of the 2012 GE Edison Award Winner will remain confidential until announced at the awards ceremony. The winner will receive a personalized Steuben crystal trophy and continued publicity throughout the following year. A distinctive plaque also will be presented to the owner of the winning installation. The products manufactured in the plant is expect...
Post a Comment
Read more