Europe’s 100 Largest Companies
From time to time we get requests from the market asking about a selection of companies or looking for a count of Global 5000 records in an industry or a country – and we like to share some of the interesting pieces of info stored in our database. Such was the case this week as […]
Top Countries for Global 5000 Revenue
Updating a previous post – we took the combined revenue of all Global 5000 companies in each country, then ranked the countries based on this aggregate revenue figure. This becomes a good proxy for the overall B2B marketplace given that businesses sell to these Global 5000 entities. The US is the top country for the […]
Comparing Public vs Private Companies
One of the unique aspects of our Global 5000 database compared to other “top” lists is that we include both public and private companies. A question we are often asked is how many private companies are in the database — so we have put together this summary to show the breakdown by region of the […]
FinTech Companies in the Global 5000
With all the activity in the FinTech sector over the past couple of years, we have been compiling a list of FinTech companies and have integrated it with our Global 5000 database. In many cases, the hype of FinTech completely changing the banking industry has been mostly hype — there have been significant inroads in […]
Global 5000 Database – list of countries
For those who like lists of companies and locations for lead generation, we ran the most recent count (31 March 2018) of companies in each country. No big surprises as USA is the largest followed by China, Japan, UK and Germany. Argentina 7 Australia 82 Austria 18 Bahamas 2 Bahrain 2 Belarus 1 Belgium 28 […]
The Global 5000 by Industry
Each company in the database is assigned to an industry segment based on here they derive the majority of their revenue from. Those segments are then rolled up to industry segments. The table below shows the number of companies in each industry alongside the largest provider in each. Financial Services 877 Berkshire Hathaway Industrials (non […]
Is this fake B2B news or AI generated content run amok?
As part of our normal research process of examining M&A transactions for Global 5000 companies, we came across a number of postings & articles that look like fake news. They look like automatically generated content and the info in them is wrong and bad. Junk that is wasting space and adding to the noise online. […]
Reconciling Data – Robo Advisors & the SEC
Anyone who has worked with databases knows that matching up multiple datasets knows that the nitty, gritty behind-the-scenes detail work is not exactly the most glamorous work —- but it is necessary. That realization was once again driven home when we downloaded the SEC list of registered advisors. The goal was to match that list […]
Japan’s Growth & Manufacturing Challenges
There was an interesting & thought provoking article in Reuters this past week that focused on challenges for Japan’s manufacturing industry. With manufacturing being a key element of the Japanese economy, anything that moves a bit in that sector can be cause for concern. The article focuses on the lack of growth and development in […]
So, What’s in Your (B2B) CRM?
The Global 5000 database is normally imported into our client’s CRM system and then matched to existing records in the system so that all contacts and related activity have an updated set of revenue and employee data. In many cases, it forms the baseline for dividing accounts between major account teams and the smaller accounts. […]