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GOVERNOR

SCOTT WALKER

STATE OF

WISCONSIN

Companies looking to start, relocate or expand GE Healthcare and Oshkosh Corporation are but located. In total, the ripple effect of GE Healthcare
their operations in Wisconsin benefit from the state’s two of many companies that both benefit from and supports more than 20,000 jobs in Wisconsin
central location, reliable infrastructure, industry lead- contribute to Wisconsin’s strong, productive and ver- through its supply chain participants in the state.
ership, talented workforce and business-friendly pol- satile business climate.
icies—all of which create competitive advantages GE Healthcare’s history in Wisconsin dates back to
that help businesses capitalize upon regional, na- GE Healthcare is an $18 billion unit of General 1947, when the GE X-Ray Department, as it was
tional and global market opportunities. Electric Co., employing more than 52,000 people known then, moved from Chicago to occupy a sur-
worldwide and serving healthcare professionals in plus production plant in West Milwaukee. Today, GE
Wisconsin’s long history of innovation continues to more than 100 countries. The company’s imaging Healthcare has facilities in Waukesha, Wauwatosa,
fuel new solutions to challenges facing people, com- and clinical care practices, which include ultrasound, Milwaukee, West Milwaukee, Oak Creek, Madison
panies, nations and our very planet, with some of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed to- and Pewaukee.
the most respected companies in the world drawing mography (CT), patient monitoring, maternal-infant
upon Wisconsin’s plentiful natural resources, re- care and X-Ray technologies, is headquartered in In 2004, the company acquired Amersham plc, a
nowned research capabilities and the can-do spirit Wisconsin, where the largest concentration of GE British life sciences firm, and changed its name from
of its citizens to grow and succeed. Healthcare’s workforce—6,000 employees—is “GE Medical Systems” to “GE Healthcare.” In 2016,

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