Director/PDMR Shareholding

GENERAL ELECTRIC
                  

Notification of Transactions of Directors/Persons Discharging Managerial
Responsibility and Connected Persons

Please accept this notification by General Electric Company ('GE') as required
by DR 3.1.4R(1) of the UK Disclosure Rules.

Effective September 1, 2005, the following GE insider transactions became
effective:

An Executive Officer, Pamela Daley exercised 16,000 options. The securities were
converted on a 1-for-1 basis at a price of $10.65 per option. This was a
cashless stock option exercise therefore in a same day sale, 16,000 common
shares of GE were sold at $33.43 in the open market.

A Form 4 disclosing the transaction described above was filed with the SEC on
September 2, 2005.

Submitted on behalf of GE by Eliza W. Fraser, Associate Corporate Counsel, Tel:
203-373-2442.