Press Release

GM Announces Two New Board Members

12/04/96

Two New Directors Join General Motors Board

DETROIT, Dec. 2 -- The election of two new directors to
the General Motors Board was announced today by GM
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President John F.  Smith, Jr.

The two new directors are: Percy Barnevik, chairman and chief
executive officer of ABB Asea Brown Boveri, Ltd., the Zurich-based
international electrical engineering company; and George M. C. Fisher,
chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Eastman Kodak
Company . The addition of these two directors increases the
size of the GM Board to 16 members, 14 of whom are independent,
outside directors.

"The diversity of experience represented on the GM Board is greatly
enhanced with the addition of these two new directors," said
Smith. "Mr. Barnevik's international expertise gives the board greater
depth in the increasingly important area of globalization in business.
Mr. Fisher brings great technological expertise to the table. And both
have outstanding records of accomplishment as leaders."

Barnevik, 55, was elected president and chief executive officer when
ABB Asea Brown Boveri was created through a merger in
1988. Previously, he was president and chief executive officer of Asea
AB from 1980-87. He also held senior executive positions at Swedish
Sandvik AB, a specialty steel and tools concern, and was president of
Sandvik, USA, from 1975-79.

Barnevik is a member of the board of directors of Investor, AB, in
Sweden, and E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Company. He is chairman of the
boards of Skanska AB, a Swedish construction company, and of Sandvik
AB.  Barnevik is also a member of several international organizations,
such as the Competitiveness Advisory Group advising the European
Commission (chairman), Advisory groups to the Russian and Polish prime
ministers, and the European and EU-Japan Roundtables, to name a
few. He holds an MBA from the School of Economics in Gothenburg,
Sweden, has also completed studies at Stanford University, in
California, and has received three honorary doctorate degrees from
European and American universities.

Fisher, 56, joined Kodak in December 1993. Previously, he had been
chairman and chief executive officer of Motorola, Incorporated. He
joined Motorola in 1976 after 10 years in research and development at
Bell Telephone Laboratories. He was named senior vice president and
assistant general manager of Motorola's Communications Sector in
1984. Fisher was elected a senior executive vice president and deputy
to the chief executive officer, and joined the Motorola Board of
Directors in 1986. He was named president and CEO in 1988, and was
elected chairman of the board and CEO in 1990.

Fisher is a member of the Policy Committee of the Business Roundtable
and a member of The Business Council. He is on the board of directors
of the University of Illinois Foundation. Also, he has been elected a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and to the National
Academy of Engineers.

He was chairman of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness from 1991-93,
and is a past member of the boards of American Express Company, Brown
University, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, and National Urban
League, Inc. He has been active in U.S./international trade issues
through advisory groups to the U.S. trade representative and the
U.S. secretary of commerce. Currently, he participates on the Advisory
Council for Trade Policy and Negotiations.

A native of Anna, Illinois, Fisher received a bachelor of science
degree in engineering from the University of Illinois, and a master of
science degree in engineering (1964) and Ph.D. in applied mathematics
(1966) from Brown University.