A Profile of China’s Big Business
This week’s earnings announcement by Apple highlighted the importance of China in the world market. Their sales success in China this quarter has been hailed by some as the reason Apple was able to beat the numbers this quarter. From the earlier days when the term BRIC was created and emerging markets started to be […]
Spending on Corporate Training & Education in Global 5000 Companies
In previous posts, we have outlined the size and footprint of The Global 5000 set of companies. The combined revenue of this group of the largest enterprises in the world equates to approximately 2/3 of the world GDP. They make most of the money in the business world and spend like it too. One of […]
A Global Metric for B2B Sales – how do your sales measure up?
As B2B companies look for areas of growth, going global and looking at emerging markets comes to the top of the list these days. The US economy has been on a good run from last year into 2012 but Europe is a big question mark. Sizing up market estimates, sizes and plans is always a […]
American Airlines, Eastman Kodak and Facebook
Within a few short weeks the reports came out about 2 traditionalGlobal 5000 firms — American Airlines and Eastman Kodak — filed for bankruptcy. At the same time Facebook is filing for what is shpaing up to be one of the largest IPO’s ever. None of this is exactly news. American is one of the […]
Where do Private Companies fit in your Database Plan?
Most of the business press and financial news focuses our attention on public companies. Because they are public, information on those companies is easy to find and they issues all forms of communications to keep up their visibility. Private companies are private for a reason and they do make that much information avaialble. It all […]
American and the Airlines Dilemma
AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, filed for bankruptcy this week. They are the last of the major carriers to file. When we step back and look at the overall airline industry, there are some interesting differences between the largest airlines and the rest of the leading companies around the world. From The Global […]
The Saab Journey — now on to China
If Pang Da auto (one of Saab’s new owners) was in the US, they would be in the top 300 of Fortune companies … and hardly anyone knows the name. Saab auto has had quite the journey from its home in Sweden to being part of General Motors and now owned by a firm in […]
BRIC Companies in The Global 5000
Periodically, various analysts and news articles bring the idea of BRIC country development comes to the front. Examining The Global 5000 companies, we find 6.5% of the companies are in Brazil, Russia, India and China. But they represent nearly 10% of the revenue of the total Global 5000 database. One other interesting aspect of this […]
Using Revenue per Employee as a Metric
Many companies look at numerous metrics to see how their own firm stacks up against their peers. One of those benchmarks is revenue per employee and we decided to look at The Global 5000 database and do some calculations. Normally, there are significant differences in these kind of metrics when comparing organizations by geography, industry […]
Health Care Costs for Corporations Rising Dramtaically
A NY Times article today reported the dramatic rise in health care costs for employers. It is no surprise that this has had such an effect on employment in corporations. Plus, given what we have seen when looking at the revenue of health care related companies, this segment of the market has been reaping handsome […]