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 August 3, 2005 the following GE insider transaction became effective:

A Director, A. G. Lafley, purchased 4,700 shares of GE common stock on the open
market at a price of $34.28 per share.

A Form 4 disclosing this transaction was filed with the SEC on August 5, 2005.

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