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 July 20, 2005 the following GE insider transactions became effective:

The following 3 Executive Officers exercised options from a grant received on
9/15/1995.

--  Ben W. Heineman, Jr. exercised 270,000 options

--  Ron R. Pressman exercised 72,000 options

--  Keith S. Sherin exercised 60,000 options

The securities were converted on a 1-for-1 basis at a price of $10.65 per
option. All exercises were on a cashless stock option exercise basis and all
Executive Officers are required to hold the net shares received for a period of
one year. The following same day sales took place in order to cover the exercise
costs and taxes incurred:

--  B. Heineman sold a total of 161,280 GE shares in the open market at an
    average price of $35.1530 per share.

--  R. Pressman sold a total of 44,025 GE shares in the open market at an
    average price of $35.2074 per share.

--  K. Sherin sold a total of 35,840 GE shares in the open market at an average
    price of $35.2091 per share.

A Form 4 for each Executive Officer disclosing the transactions described above
was filed with the SEC on July 22, 2005.

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