Volkswagen with so much to lose – Why?
The news this week that Volkswagen has been up to no good in order to evade US emissions rules has many scratching their head. Why? With so much to lose in terms of brand value, stock market valuation, most likely some jobs and their reputation among buyers . . . it really begs the question: […]
Global 5000 database update – August 2015
The month of August 2015 brought some big changes for The Global 5000 database with a change in the Health Care segmentation and a substantial increase in the number of new companies added to the database. We continue to see more consolidation and big mergers continuing as has been the pattern throughout 2015. During August […]
Benchmarks for Global Sales Teams
One of the common uses for The Global 5000 database is in planning resources for global sales account teams. A recent client study helped show the way by planning resources to match the industry and geographic benchmarks of the overall market. To do this, we simply too the revenue of The Global 5000 – over […]
Global 5000 Companies in Switzerland
We have recently compiled and updated the list of the largest companies in Switzerland and have developed the following summary Country Snapshot _ Switzerland 12 Aug 2015
An Update on Health Care Market Segmentation
As Health Care market spending has been booming in the past few years, we have seen a comparable growth in the number of health care related companies that are in The Global 5000. Currently, there are 214 health care companies that are part of The Global 5000 representing over $2.5 trillion in revenue. We have […]
Global 5000 database update – July 2015
With the first half of 2015 ‘in the books’, we have completed updates and new additions to The Global 5000 marketing database. We continue to see more consolidation and big mergers continuing as has been the pattern throughout 2015. For the first 6 months of the year, over 2,700 records in the database have been […]
Is This the Year of the Big Merger ?
By the looks of things so far in 2015 could turn out to be the year of the big merger. A few examples of note include: Kraft & Heinz Safeway and Albertsons Ahold merging with Delhaize And last week Aetna and Humana announced they will get together It is mergers of this size that make […]
Global 5000 Database Update – June 2015
We have just completed our updates for May, 2015 and are finding more consolidation as has been the consistent pattern throughout 2015. During the month of May, we updated over 700 records in the database including adding 28 new companies. At the same time, 23 companies we turned inactive due to being acquired or revenue […]
Alberston’s & Safeway Will Become One of the Industry’s Largest
With the merger announcement that Albertson’s & Safeway will become one under a new publicly traded entity, now is a good time to see where they will rank among the world’s largest. These store chains (and others like them) fall into a broader category that includes drug stores and some wholesalers in the food distribution […]
Comparing Country Growth Performance
With the benefit of history – having updated The Global 5000 companies since 2006 – we can now look at how different industries and countries have grown. This becomes an important component to business and sales plans where a companies assets might be focused on certain sectors or quotas are built on a country by […]