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 January 2021, 16 new companies were added to the Global 5000 database. This brings our total new companies added over the last 12 months to 241. During the month, 147 company records were updated as we continue our regular, daily updating process. January tends to be a light period for updates as the majority of company records get updated when financial results are posted for the year toward the end of February.
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:
- Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, an $8 bln Chinese company
- Retail tool & equipment supplier Harbor Freight Tools
- Perspecta, Inc., the IT services firm that will soon be acquired by private equity
- Transportation services firm, Transplace Inc.
- Kynetic LLC, a builder of Internet consumer businesses
And some of the notable firms we removed from the active file include the following:
- Refinitiv which has been acquired by London Stock Exchange
- Eby-Brown – now part of Performance Food Group
- Tiffany & Co which was acquired by LVMH Moet Hennessy
- WPX Energy was acquired by Devon Energy
- Pioneer Food Group, Ltd is now part of PepsiCo
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.