The sale could yield between $5 billion and $8 billion the wall street journal reported.
Last year general electric took in $11.6 billion in the sale of it's plastic division.
GE started it's appliance business in 1907,revenue for the GE base Louisville ky industrial business which includes appliance manufacturing,was nearly $17.73 billion in 2007,down slightly from $17.74 billion in 2006.
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