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 December 2020, 22 new companies were added to the Global 5000 database. This brings our total new companies added over the last 12 months to 238. During the month, 125 company records were updated as we continue our regular, daily updating process. The fourth quarter tends to be a light period for updates as most all company records were updated when financial results were posted for the year in March.
Every month we complete a series of updates so that we cycle thru the entire database annually. In this process there are always a number of changes and major deals in the M&A world. Companies with a marketing database that don’t follow this level of activity are truly missing out in their sales and marketing efforts.
Some of the top companies we added during the month included:
- Ingram Micro was part of HNA Group but is now sold to a PE company
- M&G Plc , the UK financial services firm that emerged from Prudential
- Ant Group financial, the Chinese financial payments firm
- Associated Wholesale Grocers, a $10 billion food based company
- ProMedica Health which acquired HCR ManorCare
And some of the notable firms we removed from the active file include the following:
- TD Ameritrade was acquired by Schwab
- Cree reported revenue fell off below our minimum
- Land Securities now has revenue too small
- Arjo AB revenues are too small
- Teekay Tankers’ revenue is not yet large enough
More information about the Global 5000 database is on this page
To see the data we provide for each company record, the Global 5000 sample records 2019 Excel file contains a few records.