When Global Industry Growth Slows
In the current global market environment as we begin 2016, there is concern over the slumping price of oil, a slower growth rate in China and the end of the stock market ‘bull’ cycle — among other concerns. The corporate markets have seen a flood of money fueling new companies (primarily tech and health care) […]
Volkswagen with so much to lose – Why?
The news this week that Volkswagen has been up to no good in order to evade US emissions rules has many scratching their head. Why? With so much to lose in terms of brand value, stock market valuation, most likely some jobs and their reputation among buyers . . . it really begs the question: […]
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 […]