Global M&A Activity – April 2013
Each month we track the corporate activity for the Global 5000 companies as they acquire new businesses or divest of various operations. These ‘comings and goings’ are interesting and shape markets over time. In the short run, there are real implications for companies serving these large organizations and national account programs where various teams are […]
updated – Where the Global 5000 Companies Are – population by country
This data has been updated to reflect October 2014 — please go to this page Here is a look at where The Global 5000 companies are located – top 20 countries by number of Global 5000 companies
Global M&A Data for March 2013
Each month we track the corporate activity for the Global 5000 companies as they acquire new businesses or divest of various operations. These ‘comings and goings’ are interesting and shape markets over time. In the short run, there are real implications for companies serving these large organizations and national account programs where various teams are […]
Global M&A Activity for February 2013
Each month we track the corporate activity for the Global 5000 companies as they acquire new businesses or divest of various operations. These ‘comings and goings’ are interesting and shape markets over time. In the short run, there are real implications for companies serving these large organizations and national account programs where various teams are […]
The Top 10 Airlines – and if American and US Air were to merge
With the current talk of an imminent deal between US Air and American Airlines (AMR) we took a look at the largest airline companies in the world by revenue. 2011 is the last full year of reported figures with 2012 not yet fully released. Assuming these 2 got together back then, the top 10 lineup […]
Dell Joins Other Large Private Companies
With Dell going private in one of the largest financial transactions in recent years, they join quite a group of large, private companies at 20th on the list of privates. Here’s the list in order of the largest revenue. It does include some firms that are government owned. China National Petroleum Vitol Holding B.V. State […]
Updates for Spending on Corporate Training and Education
We have updated our estimates of the amount companies spend on corporate education and training. The data is based on survey research that generated averages of spending by industry (vertical markets) and number of employees by various regions of the world. Taking all that into a model, these estimates were then applied to each company […]
Global M&A Activity – December 2012
Each month we track the corporate activity for the Global 5000 companies as they acquire new businesses or divest of various operations. These ‘comings and goings’ are interesting and shape markets over time. In the short run, there are real implications for companies serving these large organizations and national account programs where various teams are […]
Top 25 Countries for B2B Revenue
*** Data for this article has been updated on 12 Aug 2018 *** see this post If your business requires a look at sizing or forecasting your market on a country basis, there are a number of ways to derive those estimates. We can suggest one method that uses the Global 5000 company revenue […]
A Look at IT Spending by Industry
As part of The Global 5000 company records, we added an estimate for % of revenue spent on IT after digging into various secondary research sources. Taking that estimated % and applying it to all the records in the database by vertical market, yields some interesting results. We have recently had a new look at […]