During 2011, The Global 5000 companeis were very active with a number of mergers, acquisitions, divesting assets, new IPO’s and other corporate actions. In total we recorded 245 activities representing over 330 companies. Tallying up the key areas, there were 135 acquisitions, 7 companies filed ch 11 banruptcy while 5 others emerged from bankruptcy protection. Thirty Read More »
Most of the business press and financial news focuses our attention on public companies. Because they are public, information on those companies is easy to find and they issues all forms of communications to keep up their visibility. Private companies are private for a reason and they do make that much information avaialble. It all Read More »
Growth forecasts for around the world have on the rise of the developing regions of the world compared to the more established economic regions of North America and Europe. To test if this has been trending we took the top companies from The Global 5000 in each region of the world and measured their growth Read More »
AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, filed for bankruptcy this week. They are the last of the major carriers to file. When we step back and look at the overall airline industry, there are some interesting differences between the largest airlines and the rest of the leading companies around the world. From The Global Read More »
If Pang Da auto (one of Saab’s new owners) was in the US, they would be in the top 300 of Fortune companies … and hardly anyone knows the name. Saab auto has had quite the journey from its home in Sweden to being part of General Motors and now owned by a firm in Read More »
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