How Do We Count Revenue For Banks?
When building and updating a B2B database, we try to gather revenue for each company so it is on a comparable basis as companies in other industry sectors. It sounds fairly simple and straight forward – however, it is not always that easy. In those financial organizations that have a mix of business lines in […]
M&A And Corporate Activity for September 2011
With September coming to a close, there were a number of corporate activities including M&A, IPO filings, private equity financing, and spin-offs. Focusing on the largest firms – The Global 5000 – there are generally more of these than in smaller companies. These activities and changes become important for Database Marketers as they have to […]
Average Employees at Global 5000 Companies
There has been a lot of interest recently in jobs and job growth as governments try to get economies moving. The Global 5000 companies naturally play a big role here as the largest companies and employers in the world. We went back & looked at the stats for the average size (by number of worldwide […]
Where are the jobs?
A major point of contention as the global economy recovers and then falters is that the recovery appears to be a jobless one. Like many generalizations, it pays to scratch the surface and look at some of the data to get a better look at where there has been job growth and where employment is […]
1000 Companies You Want in Your B2B Prospect Base
We have 1000 companies you need to be working on as B2B prospects. With data from our Global 5000 records, we have developed a method for selecting key prospect targets. We took four data points from records in The Global 5000 and built a simple rating system based on these data points. Take a look […]
The Global 5000 Database for May 2011
During the past month of May, we have continued our updates and completed 400 more in May in addition to the 500 completed in April. We now have over 4,900 records in the database with approximately 3,800 containing new, updated data. In addition, we have focused on – and written industry news posts about: The […]
How Many Billion $$ Companies ?
Everybody knows it makes sense to follow the money. With our recent monthly update, we now find 3,000 companies in The Global 5000 have revenue of at least $1 billion. How does your client base look? How many of those do you have? Most of them are in the US. Looking around the globe, we […]
Private Companies in The Global 5000
Many database compilers these days build files and lists from any number of public company filings. We have seen company prospect files with no private company prospects. There will be private companies in the database but they are usually clients. It is easy to find public companies. It is easy to find private companies in […]
Profile of The Global 5000 – how does your business stack up?
If your company is selling to the global enterprise market, a good benchmark is to take a look at where the dollars are in the global market. We take a look at the industry groups and regions of the world by the revenue of the parent companies. The Global 5000 market looks like the following: […]
Global 5000 Companies Making Big Changes
In March, we completed updates on 728 companies among the Global 5000. Most of these were updates to new revenue posted as part of their financial postings. Additionally, there was a lot of activity on the M&A and spin-off front. The list below are all those that were included as part of that action. For […]