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 22, 2005, the following GE insider transaction became
effective:

Jeffrey R. Immelt, GE's Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer,
purchased 10,000 GE shares in the open market at a price of $34.13.

A Form 4 disclosing the transaction described above was filed with the SEC on
August 23, 2005.

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