Benchmarks for Global Sales Teams

One of the common uses for The Global 5000 database is in planning resources for global sales account teams.  A recent client study helped show the way by planning resources to match the industry and geographic benchmarks of the overall market. To do this, we simply too the revenue of The Global 5000 – over […]

Global 5000 Companies in Switzerland

We have recently compiled and updated the list of the largest companies in Switzerland and have developed the following summary Country Snapshot _ Switzerland 12 Aug 2015

An Update on Health Care Market Segmentation

As Health Care market spending has been booming in the past few years, we have seen a comparable growth in the number of health care related companies that are in The Global 5000.  Currently, there are 214 health care companies that are part of The Global 5000 representing over $2.5 trillion in revenue.  We have […]

Is This the Year of the Big Merger ?

By the looks of things so far in 2015 could turn out to be the year of the big merger. A few examples of note include: Kraft & Heinz Safeway and Albertsons Ahold merging with Delhaize And last week Aetna and Humana announced they will get together It is mergers of this size that make […]

Alberston’s & Safeway Will Become One of the Industry’s Largest

With the merger announcement that Albertson’s & Safeway will become one under a new publicly traded entity, now is a good time to see where they will rank among the world’s largest. These store chains (and others like them) fall into a broader category that includes drug stores and some wholesalers in the food distribution […]

Heinz and Kraft Create New Top 20 Food Company

The announcement today that Kraft foods and Heinz will be merging to form one of the largest food companies in the world, had us digging into The Global 5000 database to take a look at where they will rank and how the industry stacks up. Looking at the broad ‘food’ group which includes beverages, farming, […]

Top 100 Oil Companies

Throughout The Global 5000 database, there are a couple of key demographic attributes we track and use to further our research and use to research new companies.  Those are major industry sector and country where the firm is headquartered. Another use of these data elements is to continually look to understand which sectors are growing […]

Here’s what I learned from building my own B2B database

The Global 5000 database is an effort to create and maintain a database of the 5,000 largest (as defined by annual revenue) companies in the world. These can be public or private firms and are located in any country. It is built by hand with a great deal of research depth and updated on an […]

Major Account Sales & B2B Target Markets

In B2B markets, the focus on database marketing  and major account selling often creates challenges between marketing and sales where the major account team feels they know the accounts quite well and marketing is trying to find new interest for the company products and services. Some organizations want marketing help and some would rather marketing […]

Big Oil and Growth Rates

****** AN UPDATED ARTICLE ON THE OIL & GAS SEGMENT IS POSTED HERE  **************   There is a lot of discussion currently about the price of oil continuing to drop and staying low for a while. To get a sense of market and key players, we decided to look at the revenue trend line over […]