New Companies Added to The Global 5000 Database – February 2013
We are constantly doing research on companies that come to our attention – -scouring lists, IPO filings, M&A activity are all part of the ever-changing landscape. In order to achieve & maintain a set of 5,000 companies, as mergers happen, we need to find new candidate companies. It is never a static process. During February […]
Global M&A Activity for February 2013
Each month we track the corporate activity for the Global 5000 companies as they acquire new businesses or divest of various operations. These ‘comings and goings’ are interesting and shape markets over time. In the short run, there are real implications for companies serving these large organizations and national account programs where various teams are […]
New Companies Added to The Global 5000 – January 2013
We are constantly doing research on companies that come to our attention – -scouring lists, IPO filings, M&A activity are all part of the ever-changing landscape. In order to achieve & maintain a set of 5,000 companies, as mergers happen, we need to find new candidate companies. It is never a static process. During January […]
The Top 10 Airlines – and if American and US Air were to merge
With the current talk of an imminent deal between US Air and American Airlines (AMR) we took a look at the largest airline companies in the world by revenue. 2011 is the last full year of reported figures with 2012 not yet fully released. Assuming these 2 got together back then, the top 10 lineup […]
Dell Joins Other Large Private Companies
With Dell going private in one of the largest financial transactions in recent years, they join quite a group of large, private companies at 20th on the list of privates. Here’s the list in order of the largest revenue. It does include some firms that are government owned. China National Petroleum Vitol Holding B.V. State […]
Global M&A Activity for January 2013
Each month we track the corporate activity for the Global 5000 companies as they acquire new businesses or divest of various operations. These ‘comings and goings’ are interesting and shape markets over time. In the short run, there are real implications for companies serving these large organizations and national account programs where various teams are […]
Updates for Spending on Corporate Training and Education
We have updated our estimates of the amount companies spend on corporate education and training. The data is based on survey research that generated averages of spending by industry (vertical markets) and number of employees by various regions of the world. Taking all that into a model, these estimates were then applied to each company […]
Contact Names Added to the Global 5000 database
Working with our partner, SalesQuest, we have matched 2,800 Global 5000 companies and added just over 19,000 contact names to the companies in the database. To take a look at the details on the SalesQuest site, check here. For more information about The Global 5000 database, visit this page.
Global M&A Activity – December 2012
Each month we track the corporate activity for the Global 5000 companies as they acquire new businesses or divest of various operations. These ‘comings and goings’ are interesting and shape markets over time. In the short run, there are real implications for companies serving these large organizations and national account programs where various teams are […]
New Companies Added to The Global 5000 Database — Q4 2012
More current additions to the database can be found in this post We are constantly doing research on companies that come to our attention – -scouring lists, IPO filings, M&A activity are all part of the ever-changing landscape. In order to achieve & maintain a set of 5,000 companies, as mergers happen, we need […]