More Retail M&A
This week’s M&A announcements involving Global 5000 companies once again had some retail activity – Dick’s Sporting Goods (ranked #1306) will be acquiring Foot Locker (ranked #1859). Revenue for the combined companies tops $20 billion annually, but like all things retail and mall-related these days, they face an uncertain path forward. We’ll refer you back to an earlier […]
Deals and Finances
The largest group of companies in The Global 5000 database are the financial services firms with 844 companies and they are responsible for the largest chunk of revenue each year. In our industry scheme these firms run the gamut of everything from banks to payment services, insurance, securities trades, credit agencies, and holding companies. Nearly […]
Russian Companies in The Global 5000
When we first assembled The Global 5000 we focused efforts on not only finding the largest companies in the world but also doing the research of looking for big companies in every country in the world. That included places like Russia – which at the time did not seem like a big issue. Fast forward […]
Introducing the Food 400
Many different analytical pieces we come across focus on specific industries or verticals and those are often based on fairly specific labeling of industry schema – SIC codes or NAICs, etc. We have taken a broader view for analysis and trend purposes. Each company in our database gets assigned a specific segment label and those are largely […]
There Is No Fortune 5000
We regularly get questions asking if we match up to and include the Fortune 5000 in our Global 5000 database. There is no Fortune 5000. Fortune produces the well known and long standing Fortune 500 list of the top US companies. That has been expanded to 1000 firms which are public and US based. Fortune […]
More on Private Companies . . . and the IPOs That Didn’t Happen
One of the unique aspects of our Global 5000 is that we not only include public companies but also any private firms whose revenue is large enough to make it on the list of the top 5,000 companies in the world. We maintain a large database of companies and select the largest 5,000 which means […]
Database Update for Global 50 (Q1 2025)
We have completed our database updates for Q1 2025 with over 1500 company records updated and here’s a snapshot of what we are seeing: During Q1, 48 new companies were added to the Global 5000 Currently, the Global 5000 companies report revenue exceeding $77 trillion. They employ over 171 million people. The average revenue per employee […]
The Private Companies
One of the unique elements of our Global 5000 database is the inclusion of private companies alongside the publics. Most popularly published lists (Fortune lists or Forbes Global 2000 for example) contain only public companies. We have over 1160 private companies as part of The Global 5000 representing $17 trillion in revenue – approximately 23% of […]
The Transportation Ecosystem
In the Global 5000 database, there are 501 companies that have some relationship to transportation. We call it the ecosystem and it encompasses three main types of companies: Those who make transportation vehicles and parts whether they are on land, air or sea – auto makers, shipbuilders, aircraft companies are all included Those companies that […]
A Look at Financial Industry Firms
In The Global 5000 database, there are 837 companies in the financial industry. It is the largest of all industries in the database and includes companies involved in banking, securities, mortgage, and insurance segments as well as investments and PE firms. As the 2024 annual financial reporting rolls in, here’s an early (albeit partial) look […]