Mergers & Acquisitions in The Global 5000
Every database needs continuous updating as things change — companies move, sell off divisions, merge and acquire other companies. The Global 5000 companies are no different and in fact, make bigger splashes across all industries. If you have an in-house B2B database, here are the companies announcing major activity during the month of July. Campbell […]
Selling Canada’s Energy Resources – China Calling !
In one of the news announcements yesterday, came word that CNOOC of China is buying Nexen of Canada – an energy exploration company. CNOOC is a $38 billion company and Nexen reported revenues of $6.3 billion in 2011. This is a major step for a Chinese company, a major step in the energy industry and […]
What Market Metrics work for you?
With key concepts and phrases like big data, metrics, marketing analytics and benchmarks floating around our every day vocabulary we thought it appropriate to see how these might apply to the B2B marketplace. Both sales and marketing are trying to find opportunities – whether they are called target markets, leads, prospects or some other label, […]
Companies Added to The Global 5000 – Q2 2012
More recent additions 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 to find new […]
Selling to The Global 5000 – Can You Help Them Grow ? or reduce employee costs?
We have been spending the past couple of months updating information for the Global 5000 companies. Revenue reporting and yearly figures being reported take time to capture and input and line up with historical data. Along the way, M&A and divestitures keep coming our way. At this stage, with most company information updated, it is […]
Can Social Media Work With Global 5000 Companies?
We recently came across a good article in Chief Marketer that focused on an IBM initiative to use social media with inside sales teams. This got us thinking – -does social media really work in B2B markets? From Facebook to Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube, companies everywhere are using and experimenting with social media. There has […]
Camel’s Nose Under the Tent? – Fed Approves the Acquisition of US Branches by Chinese Bank
A news report came across the wires earlier announcing that the Fed had approved the acquisition of the US branches of the Bank of East Asia by ICBC, the Chinese bank. This has been a year in the making as we covered back in Jan 2011 in this article. That is when it was announced […]
Is This Where B2B Sales is Heading?
There was a good article in Forbes today that speaks to the real challenge facing organizations today as they attempt to continue searching for ways to increase sales while struggling with the changing environment of social media tools & customer engagement. We still live in a world where many B2B sales and marketing personnel continue […]
A Profile of China’s Big Business
This week’s earnings announcement by Apple highlighted the importance of China in the world market. Their sales success in China this quarter has been hailed by some as the reason Apple was able to beat the numbers this quarter. From the earlier days when the term BRIC was created and emerging markets started to be […]
Global 5000 Market Segments by Country
One of the tenets of B2B sales and marketing is a focus on various industries and increasingly, services and solutions are tuned to applications that often differ by vertical markets. It makes a lot of sense rather than thinking all geographies have the same make-up and same operations across the globe. To take a look […]