Gas & Oil Companies in The Global 5000
It was just announced that Chevron will be acquiring Anadarko Petroleum. Chevron recently posted revenue of $158 billion while Anadarko’s was $13 billion. No sooner had the release been posted when we started to read headlines and opinions questioning whether this might the start of a wave of merger activity in the Oil & Gas […]
Amazon in Everyone’s Sights
When Amazon (#20 on the Global 5000 rankings) announced they were pulling out of their HQ2 location in New York, a wave of press, comments & criticisms flooded the media. Among the cries for change we found some calling for the breakup of Amazon as it has become too big. Obviously an emotional, ‘in-the-moment’ jump […]
Big Economies & Big Companies
In the everyday stream of business news we read about all the economic ups and downs usually intertwined with political or government policy action/inaction. Whether it be recession related, Brexit news, OPEC actions, trade wars or any number of factors, the constant drumbeat makes it hard to see the bigger waves of change. As we […]
Going After the Biggest Target Market
One of the things that never ceases to amaze us is the total size of the Global 5000 companies as they relate to total economy of the world. Adding up the revenue of the 5000 companies, the total comes to $55.7 trillion. That is 70% of global GDP. Astounding. How big a target market does […]
Top 100 Global Retailers
With the Amazon effect being the talk of the retail world, we sometimes lose sight of all the retailers & wholesalers in the many corners of the world. Here’s a list of the top 100 retailers (by revenue) in the Global 5000. At the top of the list is Walmart at $500 billion down to […]
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 […]