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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]