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 makes sense. Consequently, database builders and internal CRM systems often do not contain many private companies. That may be a mistake.  Looking at The Global 5000 companies, 14% of them are private companies .... these are billion $ companies and often solid prospect. Many of these companies ...Read More »

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) most are smaller than a list like the Fortune 500. For The Global 5000, we match those companies in the Forbes list to our database to make sure we have them included every year. It is interesting to note that the total private companies in ...Read More »

The Global 5000 is a researched and compiled database of the 5000 largest companies in the world. It is based on revenue/sales generated and contains both public and private companies. There are 2289 of these companies in the US. We include companies from all countries -- from the 2289 companies in the US to 1 from Malaysia for example. To date, we have tracked 2326 companies in the world with $1 billion + annually and we continue to search for more ... hopefully finding 5000 at this level We have structured the industries they participate in with 2 levels with 22 ...Read More »

Posting a quick update this morning, we continue to update the database of the largest 5000 companies .. both public and private from around the globe. As the public companies report their annual financials, we update those records. And we try to find estimates for the private companies as well. To date we have approximately 3475 companies in the database with revenues in excess of $500 million (USD). Of these, approximately 2270 are headquartered in the US. If anyone has suggestions as to other, large companies that should be included in the list, please post in commentsRead More »