Impact on Real Estate Markets

It is pretty clear that once countries around the globe come out of the COVID-19 economic shutdown, recovery and growth will be uneven and will travel a rocky road. Part of the ‘rocky road’ aspect will be the devastation of some industry groups – restaurants for example. In some cases, the public have embraced different […]

Global Markets Perspective – COVID-19 Impact

As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept over the globe (at now an estimated 150 countries) the economic impact will be severe. All countries will feel it.  To put some economic value on the potential impact, we have assembled the GDP values for some of the major countries that have reported a significant number of coronavirus […]

The US Economy — Prior to Coronavirus

Writing this in March 2020 in the midst of a shutdown of many US cities, it is clear that the US economy (and indeed the Global economy) will take a major hit and most likely we will fall into a recession. The coming months and year (or more) will see a rocky, uneven recovery that […]

Global 5000 Database Updates – February 2020

The Global 5000 database of the largest companies in the world continues to provide B2B marketers a timely, continually updated source of business information for business lead generation, CRM systems and ABM activity. For the month of February 2020, 15 new companies were added to the Global 5000 database. This brings our total new adds […]

Is This the FinTech Effect Showing Up?

Franklin Resources announced they are acquiring Legg Mason which will create an investment management firm with revenues approaching $9 billion annually. Franklin Resources revenue for FY19 (their FY ends in September) was $5.7 billion. Legg Mason had 2018 revenue of $2.9 billion and their 3 quarters to date in 2019 showed flat revenues. Franklin’s revenue’s […]

Global 5000 Database Updates – January 2020

The Global 5000 database of the largest companies in the world continues to provide B2B marketers a timely, continually updated source of business information for business lead generation, CRM systems and ABM activity. For the month of January 2020, 13 new companies were added to the Global 5000 database. This brings our total new adds […]

Global 5000 Database – Year End Update December 2019

The Global 5000 database of the largest companies in the world continues to provide B2B marketers a timely, continually updated source of business information for B2B lead generation, CRM systems and ABM activity. As we closed out the year for 2019, we added 58 new companies to the Global 5000 database during Q4. This brings […]

Global 5000 Database Update – November 2019

The Global 5000 database of the largest companies in the world continues to provide B2B marketers a timely, continually updated source of business information for business lead generation, CRM systems and ABM activity. For the month of November 2019, 24 new companies were added to the Global 5000 database. This brings our total new adds […]

The Incredible Shrinking Sears Company

This past week, Sears announced the closing of another 96 stores following a seemingly continual series of the same type of announcements over the past few years. It is easy to find any number of pundits pointing to various causes of the demise – online shopping being the number 1 culprit. But others have fought thru […]

Global 5000 Database Update – October 2019

The Global 5000 database of the largest companies in the world continues to provide B2B marketers a timely, continually updated source of business information for business lead generation, CRM systems and ABM activity. For the month of October 2019, 20 new companies were added to the Global 5000 database. This brings our total new adds […]