Global 5000 Database Update – March 2016
With Q1 now closed at the end of March, and the initial wave of 2015 revenue figures reported, it is clear why the financial markets have been nervous about growth. From January thru March, we updated 1,286 records and the revenue from 2014 to 2015 for those companies showed total revenue declined by 0.7% – […]
update – Global 5000 companies growth
As the 2015 results are being announced during this earnings season, we have been updating records as filings have come in and took a look at the first batch of 670 companies. The chart tells the story that has been the focus of Wall Street recently – i.e. the markets are worried about global growth. […]
Global 5000 Database Update – February 2016
As we wait for 2015 revenue figures to be released in the coming weeks, January becomes a busy research month looking for companies to add and digging deeper into smaller countries and specific vertical markets.In January, 68 new companies were added and activated for the Global 5000. Another 14 were removed as a results of […]
Market Density and Concentration
One of the time honored market planning activities is to understand the density or concentration of target markets. The idea is that each market needs different resources and tactics to cover the major players and then attack the rest of the market. To look at the market overall, we took the companies in the Global […]
When Global Industry Growth Slows
In the current global market environment as we begin 2016, there is concern over the slumping price of oil, a slower growth rate in China and the end of the stock market ‘bull’ cycle — among other concerns. The corporate markets have seen a flood of money fueling new companies (primarily tech and health care) […]
Global 5000 Database Update – December and full year 2015
With the close of the year on 12/31/15, we have completed our update of the database with new additions and deletions. In December, another 54 companies were researched and added bringing the total for the year to 355 new companies. At the same time, 12 companies were removed from the active database (mainly due to […]
Matching Lists and The Global 5000
Years ago, as The Global 5000 database was being built, we researched every list of companies we could find. At the time (and it continues to this day) the big names most often mentioned were the Fortune 500 and the Forbes list of private companies. Each year, both Fortune and Forbes publish these and related […]
Database Update November 2015 – and Revenue per Employee Metrics
As the Global 5000 database is continually updated and new research provided, we take monthly snapshots of the database and look at activity each month. During the month of November 2015, 32 new companies were added to the database and another 8 were removed from the active files. The database currently has 4,662 companies that […]
A Heat Map Looking at Global Opportunities
In the previous update for The Global 5000 database, we took the revenue from all of the 5000 companies and examined the totals by industry group and by country. That view was a country view and showed for each of the top 20 countries (by global revenue) which industries were the largest and therefore provided […]
Global 5000 Database Heat Map and – Q3 2015 update
During the third quarter of 2015, a total of 1,502 records were updated with their 2014 revenues and employee counts. Along with these updates, 144 new records were added to the database and 41 records were deleted/removed from the active file. There are now a total of 4,622 active records in the database. With this […]