In our Global 5000 database, we have 761 companies located in the AsiaPac region - slightly more than the 680 in Europe. As many have pointed out, the region is full of promise and developing economies. Over the long term, growth rates are expected to exceed both Europe and North America. In this developing environment, there a number of mid-size and smaller organizations poised to grow and that represents great opportunity. To explore those companies, we suggest looking at a database from CNC Data which goes beyond the Global 5000 sized companies and has approximately 400,000 company records and 1 ...Read More »

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 vertical or size of company. Here we take a look at the rev / employee ratio by the main regions for The Global 5000. By using our database, we naturally are focusing on the high end of the market and not the overall region ... but ...Read More »

In the Global 5000 list of companies, Asia is well represented with over 400 companies and it is only growing. Japan leads the way but China's growth in particular bears watching. Japan = 281 China = 44 Hong Kong = 27 Taiwan = 26 South Korea = 23 India = 21 Singapore = 15 Indonesia = 3 Philippines = 2 Malaysia = 1 Macau = 1 Thailand = 1 Total = 445Read More »