Top 100 Global Retailers

With the Amazon effect being the talk of the retail world, we sometimes lose sight of all the retailers & wholesalers in the many corners of the world. Here’s a list of the top 100 retailers (by revenue) in the Global 5000. At the top of the list is Walmart at $500 billion down to […]

Europe’s 100 Largest Companies

From time to time we get requests from the market asking about a selection of companies or looking for a count of Global 5000 records in an industry or a country – and we like to share some of the interesting pieces of info stored in our database. Such was the case this week as […]

Top Countries for Global 5000 Revenue

Updating a previous post – we took the combined revenue of all Global 5000 companies in each country, then ranked the countries based on this aggregate revenue figure. This becomes a good proxy for the overall B2B marketplace given that businesses sell to these Global 5000 entities. The US is the top country for the […]

Global 5000 Database Update – July 2018

With the close of the month of July, we updated 696 records. There were 17 new companies added and 17 deleted. For those of you producing a list for your sales teams, you need to keep watching those updates and market activity to keep the list current. Our database remains at 99% currency – virtually […]

Comparing Public vs Private Companies

One of the unique aspects of our Global 5000 database compared to other “top” lists is that we include both public and private companies. A question we are often asked is how many private companies are in the database — so we have put together this summary to show the breakdown by region of the […]

FinTech Companies in the Global 5000

With all the activity in the FinTech sector over the past couple of years, we have been compiling a list of FinTech companies and have integrated it with our Global 5000 database.  In many cases, the hype of FinTech completely changing the banking industry has been mostly hype — there have been significant inroads in […]

Global 5000 Database Update – Q2 2018

With the month of June behind us, here is a summary of activity for the Global 5000 database at the end of Q2 2018. During the quarter we added 40 new companies to the database, replaced 40 others and updated 1,137 records.  The currency level of the database remains at 99% — meaning nearly all […]

Global 5000 Database Update – May 2018

We finished the month of May with 406 records updated. Included in our activity were 16 companies added and deleted. For those of you producing a list for your sales teams, you need to keep watching those updates and market activity to keep the list current. Our database remains at 99% currency – all 5,000 […]

Global 5000 Database Update – April 2018

We finished the month of April with 390 records updated. Included in our activity were 21 companies added and deleted. For those of you producing a list for your sales teams, you need to keep watching those updates and market activity to keep the list current. Our database remains at 99% currency – all 5,000 […]

Global 5000 Database – list of countries

For those who like lists of companies and locations for lead generation, we ran the most recent count (31 March 2018) of companies in each country. No big surprises as USA is the largest followed by China, Japan, UK and Germany. Argentina 7 Australia 82 Austria 18 Bahamas 2 Bahrain 2 Belarus 1 Belgium 28 […]