Global 5000 Database Updates – 3 December 2010
This week, 142 records were updated with the majority of them outside the US with Fiscal Yearend between Jule and September – so we have a look at how 2010 numbers will look. For this group of comapnies, 2009 was down 7.2% compared to 2008 and 2010 is down another 1.3% The % of employees […]
Global 5000 Database Updates – 26 November 2010
During the week ending 26 November, we updated 223 records. Looking at year over year revenue for these companies, the total revenues dropped by 3.4% as companies continue to try and find growth coming out of the recession. We continue searching on LinkedIn contacts and comparing those to the employees for the updated companies. This […]
Global 5000 Updates – 19 November 2010
During the week ending 19 Nov, we completed 136 updates. Year over year revenues for this group were down 8% – reflecting the lingering effects of the recession. Included in these updates is the linkage to LinkedIn contacts. LinkedIn continues to be the strongest with the US based companies. The weakest segment is the retail sector […]
Global 5000 Updates – 12 November 2010
For the week ending 12 November, we updated 177 records. In addition the revenue and employee counts with these updates, we also researched and added in counts for LinkedIn records associated with those companies. The largest companies in the updates this week are: Walgreens Accenture Mercadona SA Grupo Ferrovial Nippon Express Komatsu Mitsubishi Motors DSG […]
Global 5000 Company Updates 5 Nov 2010
For the week ending 5 Nov, we updated 73 company records. We also noted that Forbes released their 2010 list of private companies. This year there are 223 companies that made that list. They are US only and the cut-off is $2 billion in revenue. That list is being checked against the Global 5000 to […]
Company Updates 29 Oct 2010
This week, 82 companies were updated in the Global 5000 database. The largest of these (by revenue) include: Costco Wholesale Endesa Saudi Basic Industries China North Central Japan Railway Aegis Group Linde Group Caltex Australia Woori Investments & Securities Royal Mail Holdings One of the things we started collecting is number of LinkedIn members stating […]
Company Updates 22 Oct 10
This week we updated 91 records in the database. The largest companies in this group were: J. Sainsbury Marks & Spencer Toys R Us Kingfisher Thomson Reuters Sysco Weatherford International Telstra Portugal Telecom Overall, companies in this update saw their year over year revenue shrink by 4.2%. At the same time, average revenue per employee […]
New Companies Added
You can find more recent additions in this post Just added to the Global 5000 list this week: HCL Technologies, a $5 billion technology, infrastructure and business processing firm in India Abengoa, a $5 billion construction services firm in Spain