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GE Capitol Games Flag Football Challenge Scores Big with D.C. Area Distributors

Washington, D.C. – About 100 people—Washington D.C. area electrical distributors and GE Sales team members—participated in GE Consumer & Industrial's first Capitol Games Flag Football Challenge at the Washington Redskins' FedEx Field on Thursday, October 11, 2007. The teams played 30-minute half field games to determine the winner. Maurice Electric Supply Co. won the event taking home trophies and premium game tickets for the October 21st Redskins home game.

GE Capitol Games is an incentive program for GE distributors and their employees. Seven lucky distributors and commercial customers and one GE sales team participated in the event. GE Capital Rewards is an element of GE's ongoing corporate sponsorship with The Washington Redskins.

"GE's distributors score touchdowns for their customers everyday with the deployment of our reliable, cost- and energy-saving electrical distribution and lamp products," says Derek Gibbons, GE District Manager for the Capitol region. "This is a fun way to reward our customers' dedication to value and excellence."

Participants received star treatment with Redskins public-address announcer Mark Kessler introducing each player as they ran onto FedExField through the tunnel and large inflatable Redskins' team helmet. Former Redskin greats, wide receivers Gary Clark and Ricky Sanders, served as honorary coaches calling the "X's and O's" for the teams.

Each team received a Clark and Sanders autographed 75th anniversary football, official Redskins jerseys, yearbooks and fleece jackets. When the games were completed, the teams were treated to a catered awards ceremony at the Owners Club, onsite at FedEx Field.

Other distributor's participating in the event were Electrical Wholesalers, Dulles Electric, Farmville Wholesale Electric Supply Co., Shepherd Electric Supply, GEXPRO, and Graybar.

GE Consumer & Industrial spans the globe as an industry leader in major appliance, lighting and integrated industrial equipment, systems and services. Providing solutions for commercial, industrial and residential use in more than 100 countries, GE Consumer & Industrial uses innovative technologies and "ecomagination," a GE initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that help customers and consumers meet pressing environmental challenges, to deliver comfort, convenience and electrical protection and control. General Electric (NYSE: GE) brings imagination to work, selling products under the Monogram®, Profile™ GE®, Hotpoint®, SmartWater™ Reveal®, Edison™ and Energy Smart™ consumer brands, and Entellisys™ industrial brand. For more information, consumers may visit www.ge.com.

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