With the close of the month of July, we updated 696 records. There were 17 new companies added and 17 deleted. For those of you producing a list for your sales teams, you need to keep watching those updates and market activity to keep the list current. Our database remains at 99% currency – virtually all 5,000 records have had an update within the past 12 months.
For those firms looking for lead generation opportunities, databases will need to be updated with all these new additions, M&A combinations . . . and some spin-offs.
Among the key new firms added are:
- Yankuang Group – a $29 billion China based coal mining company
- Taikang Insurance Group is a $24 billion insurance company
- Xiamen Xiangyu Co Ltd – a supply chain management firm
- Presidio, Inc. is a $2.8 billion IT solutions provider
- Quorum Health Corporation of TN is a $2 billion hospital & healthcare services business
At the same time companies removed during July include some where their revenue that fell short of the minimum as well as those merged or acquired:
- Amec Foster Wheeler plc was acquired by John Wood Plc
- Orbital ATK was acquired by Northrop Grumman
- Banco Popular Espanol was acquired by Bank Santander
- Unified Western Grocers being acquired by Supervalu
- Nortel Inversora S.A. was acquired by Telecom Argentina
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