Global 5000 Database Update – November 2019
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 November 2019, 24 new companies were added to the Global 5000 database. This brings our total new adds […]
Comparing Public vs Private Companies
One of the unique aspects of our Global 5000 database compared to other “top” lists is that we include both public and private companies. A question we are often asked is how many private companies are in the database — so we have put together this summary to show the breakdown by region of the […]
Global 5000 database update — November 2016
During the month of November, we added 58 new companies, while removing 17 others which brings the total active records in the database to 4,981 for the Global 5000 database. To date this year, we have added 414 companies to the database and removed 143 due to mergers, acquisitions and lower revenue reported. As with […]
Dell Joins Other Large Private Companies
With Dell going private in one of the largest financial transactions in recent years, they join quite a group of large, private companies at 20th on the list of privates. Here’s the list in order of the largest revenue. It does include some firms that are government owned. China National Petroleum Vitol Holding B.V. State […]
Where do Private Companies fit in your Database Plan?
Most of the business press and financial news focuses our attention on public companies. Because they are public, information on those companies is easy to find and they issues all forms of communications to keep up their visibility. Private companies are private for a reason and they do make that much information avaialble. It all […]
The Forbes List & Private Companies in The Global 5000
Forbes magazine has published their annual list of the largest private companies in the US – listed here. They cover US private companies with $2 billion + revenue. This past year (2010 revenue) there were 212 companies that fit the criteria. Except for a few of the very large firms (like Cargill or Koch Industries) […]