Chesapeake Energy & Southwestern Energy to Combine

Chesapeake Energy Corporation and Southwestern Energy Company announced that they have entered into an agreement to merge in an all-stock transaction valued at $7.4 billion, or $6.69 per share, based on Chesapeake’s closing price on January 10, 2024.  Additional News BASIC MATERIALSArkema Acquires a Stake in Tiamat  BUSINESS SERVICESAccenture to Acquire NavisiteAccenture to Acquire Work & Co Stantec […]

Aon to Acquire NFP as Independent, Connected Platform

Aon plc, a leading global professional services firm, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire NFP, a leading middle market property and casualty broker, benefits consultant, wealth manager and retirement plan advisor – Read Announcement

TFI International Agrees to Acquire Daseke

TFI International Inc. (NYSE and TSX: TFII), a North American leader in the transportation and logistics industry, today announced it has agreed to acquire Daseke, Inc. (“Daseke”, NASDAQ: DSKE), one of the leading flatbed and specialized transportation and logistics companies in North America, for $8.30 in cash per common share.  Read Announcement

The Profile of The Global 5000 Companies

With our latest update, here’s a snapshot of how the Global 5000 companies shake out by industry and country. First is the database sliced by revenue for Global 5000 companies – total revenue by country. Shown here are the top 12 countries and dollar value in billions. You can see that the ranking of countries […]

Global 5000 Database Update – May 2023

Continuing our regular updating of the Global 5000 database, we have completed updating over 520 records for the month of May. During the month, we also welcomed 10 new companies to the Global 5000 replacing some who were acquired (or their revenue fell back too far to make it into the 5000. That brings the […]

Regional Growth – AsiaPac rules

Everyone has their eye on China and how fast it has grown. It is expected that China’s economy will overtake the US to become the #1 in the world. Using the data from the Global 5000 companies over the past few years it is clear to see that they are on track. To look at […]

A Broader View of Transportation

We are currently working on an expansion of the overall transportation industry. In the Global economy, transportation spans multiple industry codes and groups that all seem to be experiencing major fundamental shifts. The impact of COVID upended the airline passenger travel business which is just now bouncing back – it also caused havoc with shipping […]

The Global 5000 Rankings – what does it take to make the 5000?

One question we get asked regularly is — what does it take to make it into the Global 5000?  The Global 5000 is based on revenue and for most years, the bottom level of revenue is just above $1 billion in annual revenue. Take a look at the chart below – the blue bars using […]

More New Companies Added to The Global 5000 Database

The early part of 2022 has been quite a wild ride in the financial markets which often means plenty of company activity – IPO’s launched, M&A running at a furious pace and plenty of spin-offs announced.  That was the case as we started into 2022. And the converse is true — as markets have cooled […]

Global 5000 Database Update for Q1 2022

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. To begin 2022, we have added/replaced 45 companies during Quarter One. This brings our total new companies added over the last 12 […]