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 19, 2005, the following GE insider transaction became
effective:

A GE Director, Claudio X. Gonzalez, purchased 20,000 GE shares in the open
market at a price of $33.98.

A Form 4 disclosing the transaction described above was filed with the SEC on
September 21, 2005.

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