GE claims that the lighting business will not be restructured in the future to pay more attention to LED share

Recently, the headquarters of the GE lighting business strategy re positioning, so that the global lighting team and GE growth and innovation team alliance, the outside world as GE headquarters will restructure its lighting business.

Yesterday, Chen Han, general manager of GE lighting China, said in an interview with reporters, there is no possibility of restructuring".

When the home appliance business in the sale, the proportion of lighting for GE business is too small, accounting for only 2% of the company's sales, and therefore can not become an independent business unit. Originally, there are rumors and industrial systems or with other business departments together, but later due to various considerations, in order to better the development of lighting, the lighting is directly linked to the company below, and no merger and any business sector, therefore does not exist in the reorganization may. Chen Han said.

As the world's first lighting companies, GE lighting has a history of more than 130 years, and with PHILPS, OSRAM tied for the world's top three lighting giant". Chen Han denied that the GE lighting in some local markets in the world is relatively backward, but he stressed that "GE lighting is still relatively strong in the North American market, because in each local market status, including the different influence on the market, GE lighting in each local market strategy will be different. "

Chen Han also said, GE lighting LED lighting China will pay more attention to share, preset in 2015 will achieve LED lighting part growth of about 75%, GE lighting is also more and more attention to the Chinese area, GE has been in the intelligent LED street lighting system will also promote North America and other places in the domestic field of actively expanding, according to a report, the successful development of the LightGrid system GE is the road lighting system, the most advanced last year, GE completed the replacement work 3000 street in Santiago city for the traditional light source.

GE launched in June last year, the price of less than $15 in the new economic networking bulb Link will also visit the domestic market in the near future, a new chapter for consumers of smart home. However, Chen Han also said that household lighting is not the focus of consumer GE, GE pay more attention to large customers, infrastructure and industrial lighting.

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