Prosus Acquiring Just Eat Takeaway
Prosus to Acquire Just Eat Takeaway.com for €4.1bn Prosus announced it has reached a conditional agreement to acquire Just Eat Takeaway.com, to create the fourth largest food delivery group globally. Prosus intends to acquire Just Eat Takeaway.com’s entire issued share capital for €20.30 per share via a recommended all-cash public offer on the Amsterdam exchange.Acquisition […]
Amazon vs Walmart — and a few other retail items
Walmart has been #1 in the world for a long time. The largest company in the world for a decade or so. There was some thought that this would be the year (2024) that Amazon would catch them. Almost – it is getting close. We went back to 2017 to compare the annual revenue of both companies […]
M&A this week
Shift4 to Acquire Global BlueShift4 and Global Blue announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Shift4 will acquire Global Blue for $7.50 per common share in cash, representing an 15% premium to Global Blue’s closing share price as of February 14, 2025, and a ~$2.5 billion enterprise value.Acquisition ● Financial Services ● North […]
The Auto Industry – Uncertainty. Change. Crosswinds
Auto manufacturers are in the middle of a whirlwind of a number of environmental, governmental, and market forces the likes of which we have not seen before. Just look at the items grabbing the headlines and news cycles the past month or so: The change of administration in the US has put the whole EV […]
Lennar Completes Spin-off of Millrose Properties
Lennar Corporation and Millrose Properties, Inc. jointly announced they have successfully completed the previously announced taxable spin-off of Millrose from Lennar through a distribution of approximately 80% of Millrose’s stock to Lennar’s stockholders.Spin-off ● Construction ● North America TE Connectivity to Acquire Richards ManufacturingTE Connectivity plc has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Richards Manufacturing Co. from funds […]
Conglomerates – the End of an Era ??
The announcement by Honeywell (ranked #456 in The Global 5000) that it is splitting into three companies might very well have marked the end of the era of conglomerates. A few years back, GE went down a similar path and split itself up into three pieces. The main GE company (ranked #207) was a $122 […]
A Europe Retrenchment
An item that caught our attention as we monitor the news of The Global 5000 companies came from HSBC, the UK based banking giant (ranked #38 in The Global 5000). The news item stated that HSBC is planning its biggest European retrenchment in decades. The bank will now be focused on Asia Pac and the Middle […]
AI – How Does It Work? . . . and when it really doesn’t
Like everyone else, we have been playing with various AI tools and decided to do a little experiment to see if we could use AI to create The Global 5000. We tried 3 available tools — ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot — and asked each one to return a list of the 5000 largest […]
Remember That Covid Years(s)? —- a look at how Global 5000 companies adapt
While doing some company database updates for Global 5000 companies recently, we came across a couple of interesting cases that point out how businesses in different industries have to adapt very differently to market conditions. Covid hit hardest during 2020 but there were early signs at the end of 2019 and then it lingered into […]
2024 M&A Activity for Global 5000 Companies
Throughout the year 2024 (and every year) we keep track of the M&A activities, spin-off’s divestitures, etc. among Global 5000 companies. Essentially any corporate activities that will materially affect their revenue and affect how companies may need to adjust their target market selling efforts. The idea is that what is in your CRM system or […]