Company: GEHC
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001932393-25-000005
Chunk: 40

Company: GE HealthCare Technologies Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 40
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, including EH&S matters, may impose additional costs and requirements on our business, such as the need to qualify new local suppliers or comply with new material reporting requirements, which could negatively affect our ability to compete in certain markets.

Our business dealings also involve other third parties such as distributors, dealers, wholesalers, packagers, resellers, agents, collaboration partners, sub-contractors, and others. We rely on third-party transport and warehouse management services for reliable and secure point-to-point transportation of our products to our customers and patients, tracking of these shipments, and warehousing of our products. If any of these third parties were to encounter delivery performance issues or other disruptions leading to the loss, damage, or destruction of our products, it would be costly to replace these products in a timely manner. This may damage our reputation and result in decreased demand for our products. In turn, these third parties may use sub-parties. Such dealings expose us to known and unknown risks, including risks related to economic, political, and regulatory environments; performance and quality control; business continuity in the event of termination or other events; conflicts of interest; cybersecurity events; and violations of regulations and laws, including anti-corruption laws, by these third parties or their sub-parties. We cannot control the day-to-day practices of these third parties and cannot guarantee they will comply with our quality standards, contractual requirements, applicable law, and company policies regarding compliance with regulatory and legal requirements. If these third parties do not follow our standards or violate local laws and regulations, we could suffer commercial, financial, or reputational harm, which could jeopardize our ability to continue doing business in these markets or cause our relationships to deteriorate. 

Any interruption in the operations of our facilities, or our suppliers’, customers’, or third-party providers’ facilities, may impair our ability to deliver products or provide services.

We are dependent on our global production and operating network to develop, manufacture, assemble, supply, transport, ship, warehouse, and service our offerings. A work stoppage, labor shortage, or other production limitation, including import or export restrictions and transportation issues, among others, could occur at our facilities, facilities of suppliers or other third parties on which we rely, or customer facilities, and could negatively impact our reputation and market position. Such interruptions may occur for several reasons, including as a result of regulatory enforcement actions, tight credit markets or other financial distress, production constraints or difficulties, unscheduled downtimes, war, severe weather and natural disasters, fires and explosions, accidents