During 2011, The Global 5000 companeis were very active with a number of mergers, acquisitions, divesting assets, new IPO's and other corporate actions. In total we recorded 245 activities representing over 330 companies. Tallying up the key areas, there were 135 acquisitions, 7 companies filed ch 11 banruptcy while 5 others emerged from bankruptcy protection. Thirty companies divested of some business unties or product lines. Ten companies in The Global 5000 went private. Eleven companies announced name changes and 17 companies announced they were are splitting the company into two or more entities. What does this mean to you?    These activities and changes become ...Read More »

During the month of October, The Global 5000 companies announced 15 significant deals including M&A, IPO filings, private equity financing, and spin-offs. Focusing on the largest firms – The Global 5000 – there are generally more of these than in smaller companies. These activities and changes become important for Database Marketers as they have to continually update their internal systems that can feed sales prospects and account management. Here’s the list of activities reported in October: Abbott Laboratories will be splitting into two companies ACI Worldwide is acquiring ...Read More »

With September coming to a close, there were a number of corporate activities including M&A, IPO filings, private equity financing, and spin-offs. Focusing on the largest firms - The Global 5000 - there are generally more of these than in smaller companies. These activities and changes become important for Database Marketers as they have to continually update their internal systems that can feed sales prospects and account management. Here's the list of activities reported in September: Bank of Nova Scotia is buying 20% of Bank of Guangzhou Broadcom is acquiring NetLogic Carlyle ...Read More »

Like we published in previous months, there are a number of corporate activities including M&A, IPO filings, private equity financing, and spin-offs. Focusing on the largest firms - The Global 5000 - there are generally more of these than in smaller companies. These activities and changes become important for Database Marketers as they have to continually update their internal systems that can feed sales prospects and account management. With that -- here's the list of activities reported in August: ABN Amro Bank is selling Switzerland operations to Union Bancaire Privee (UBP) Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. will buy ...Read More »

Tracking the ebb and flow of corporate activity among The Global 5000, we find not only mergers and activities (see our recent post on July M&A companies) but also companies who have announced they are splitting into 2 or more entities. Keeping track of these is important for B2B sales and marketing teams. Starting with the contracts at a company and key buying points and influences, the split company now becomes two and sales management will have to determine who (sales exec) will be covering these 2 entities.  Will it be the same rep or assign a new rep? For planning ...Read More »

In any given week or month, there are a number of corporate activities including M&A, IPO filings, private equity financing, and spin-offs. Focusing on the largest firms - The Global 5000 - there are generally more of these than in smaller companies. These activities and changes become important for Database Marketers as they have to continually update their internal systems that can feed sales prospects and account management. With that -- here's the list of activities reported in July: Aegis Group is selling it's Synovate research group to Ipsos Arch Chemicals is being acquired by Lonza Group BHP Biliton is acquiring Petrohawk Energy Borders Group ...Read More »

In March, we completed updates on 728 companies among the Global 5000.  Most of these were updates to new revenue posted as part of their financial postings. Additionally, there was a lot of activity on the M&A and spin-off front. The list below are all those that were included as part of that action. For your CRM / B2B database, keeping track of these changes and doing the updates is a full time job and continuous process. In addition to getting the data "right" there can also be implications for account assignments on the sales side. Plus, if your database segmenting ...Read More »

One of the industry news items today was the announcement that China's AVIC (Aviation Industry of China) is in talks to buy a small US airplane market. This is interesting on many levels and truly shows how the world is changing -- lest anyone thought we are really not that global. AVIC is state owned and manufactures aircraft including fighter jets and helicopters. And being state owned has lots of money. It had revenue last year of approximate $25 billion and is ranked #353 on the Global 5000 list. The Aerospace & Defense sector of the Global 5000 has 42 companies with ...Read More »

A combination of companies filing revenue for the year end 2010 and a wave of mergers & acquisition activity has made this period a very busy time.  We update records in the database at least once a year when the new revenue is posted or when a merger/acquisition is completed. It is an on-going process. So far in February, we have updated 257 companies in The Global 5000.  The top 10 (by revenue) are: Boeing Novartis Amazon Honeywell Google Schlumberger SCA (Svenska Celulosa) Union Pacific Asahi Glass Carnival Corporation Nearly all companies showed a strong recovery compared to 2009 -- but none better than Amazon which saw a revenue increase of nearly ...Read More »

One of the things we do with The Global 5000 companies database, is to keep track of the acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, acquisitions and bankruptcies of the companies.  As we have seen, the past couple of years saw a fair number of Chapter 11 reporting.  We are now in a period of IPO filings and a wave of M&A activity. As we write this, the NYSE and German exchange are holding talks and earlier this month, names involved in new business combinations included: AOL Beckman Coulter Berkshire Hathaway Danaher Ensco Kindred Healthcare Newmont Mining Nippon Steel Pride International RehabCare Sumitomo Metal Industries Wesco Financial These companies span the globe and span a number of industries. ...Read More »