Another 15 M&A Announcements This week

As we have indicated previously, these continuing M&A activities provide key indicators for sales & marketing forces to start interacting differently with their existing targeted accounts.  The Global 5000 Company Announcements CONSTRUCTIONHolcim Signs Agreement to Sell Its Nigerian Business FINANCIAL SERVICESBlackRock to Acquire HPS Investment PartnersExperian Acquisition of Audigent FOOD & BEVERAGETreeHouse Foods, Inc. Announces Acquisition […]

Home Depot Acquires SRS Distribution

The Home Depot Completes Acquisition of SRS DistributionThe Home Depot, the home improvement retailer, has completed the acquisition of SRS Distribution, Inc. for a total enterprise value of approximately $18.25 billion. SRS is a residential specialty trade distribution company across several verticals serving the professional roofer, landscaper and pool contractor. Acquisition  ●   Construction   ●   North America […]

Global 5000 Database – April 2019 update

The Global 5000 database of the largest companies in the world continues to provide B2B marketers a timely, continually updated source of business information for business lead generation, CRM systems and ABM activity. For the month of April 2019, 18 new companies were added to the Global 5000 database. This brings our total new adds […]

Paying Attention to Market Trends

One of the interesting things about having a database that is consistent over time and updated regularly is that the data can be continually mined and trends can be tracked and measured over various periods.  We find that to be useful in this B2B marketplace where many companies are talking/thinking about Account Based Marketing (ABM) […]

Global 5000 Database update – July 2017

During the month of July, 564 records were updated bringing the total updates for the year to date to 3,612.  Included in these updates were the addition of 16 new companies to the database in July We also removed 15 other firms for the month by putting them into inactive status. Every month we complete […]

Largest Market Opportunities – where are your major accounts?

Account Based Marketing (ABM) continues to get a lot of play in online blogs and consultant advice writings. One of the principles of ABM is that the efforts are focused on key accounts rather than a scatter approach to marketing and sales. In earlier iterations this was also called major account or strategic account marketing. […]