Heinz and Kraft Create New Top 20 Food Company
The announcement today that Kraft foods and Heinz will be merging to form one of the largest food companies in the world, had us digging into The Global 5000 database to take a look at where they will rank and how the industry stacks up. Looking at the broad ‘food’ group which includes beverages, farming, […]
Top 100 Oil Companies
Throughout The Global 5000 database, there are a couple of key demographic attributes we track and use to further our research and use to research new companies. Those are major industry sector and country where the firm is headquartered. Another use of these data elements is to continually look to understand which sectors are growing […]
Here’s what I learned from building my own B2B database
The Global 5000 database is an effort to create and maintain a database of the 5,000 largest (as defined by annual revenue) companies in the world. These can be public or private firms and are located in any country. It is built by hand with a great deal of research depth and updated on an […]
The Global 5000 Database Updates – Dec 2014
At the end of December 2014, we closed the year with 4,506 active records in the database. The total revenue now represented by The Global 5000 companies exceeds $53 trillion – an amazing concentration of size and buying power in one marketing database. During the year, we added 209 companies and removed 81 others as […]
New Companies Added to The Global 5000 Database – November 2014
As part of our ongoing research activities, we added the following 21 companies to The Global 5000 list and also made changes to the database related to the corporate activity shown below In November, we added the following 22 companies: Albertson’s LLC Amtek Engineering Ltd Cal Dive International, Inc. CGS Holding (Mitas) China Energy Engineering […]
Major Account Sales & B2B Target Markets
In B2B markets, the focus on database marketing and major account selling often creates challenges between marketing and sales where the major account team feels they know the accounts quite well and marketing is trying to find new interest for the company products and services. Some organizations want marketing help and some would rather marketing […]
New Additions to The Global 5000 Database – October 2014
As part of our ongoing research activities, we added the following 21 companies to The Global 5000 list and also made changes to the database related to the corporate activity shown below In October, we added the following companies: BGI-Shenzhen Bohai Steel Group Catalina Marketing CEFC China Energy Dialog Semiconductor Plc Ellucian FM Global (Factory […]
Big Oil and Growth Rates
****** AN UPDATED ARTICLE ON THE OIL & GAS SEGMENT IS POSTED HERE ************** There is a lot of discussion currently about the price of oil continuing to drop and staying low for a while. To get a sense of market and key players, we decided to look at the revenue trend line over […]
Where are The Global 5000 Companies?
When constructing a sales or marketing plan and assigning territories or determining resources by geography, it is necessary to understand where those target markets are. In the table below, we took a count of the HQ location of all the Global 5000 companies. Here are the leaders ranked by # of Global 5000 companies. USA […]
New Additions to The Global 5000 Database – September 2014
As part of our ongoing research activities, we added the following 10 companies to The Global 5000 list and also made changes to the database related to the corporate activity shown below In September, we added the following companies: Axalta Coating Systems Blucora, Inc China Modern Dairy Holdings Hyundai Greenfood Co Ltd Leidos Holdings, Inc. […]