Database Update for The Global 5000 – Q2 2025
We have completed our database updates for Q2 2025 with over 2300 company records updated and here’s a snapshot of what we are seeing: During Q2, 38 new companies were added to the Global 5000 Currently, the Global 5000 companies report revenue exceeding $77 trillion. They employ over 171 million people. The average revenue per employee […]
The Next Candidates for The Global 5000
Our work involving annual updating and ongoing tracking of Global 5000 companies always brings an array of activity causing some companies to get removed from the list. Typically it is M&A related or company revenues coming up short of what is needed to be in the top 5000. When this happens, we need to find replacements […]
More Retail M&A
This week’s M&A announcements involving Global 5000 companies once again had some retail activity – Dick’s Sporting Goods (ranked #1306) will be acquiring Foot Locker (ranked #1859). Revenue for the combined companies tops $20 billion annually, but like all things retail and mall-related these days, they face an uncertain path forward. We’ll refer you back to an earlier […]
Deals and Finances
The largest group of companies in The Global 5000 database are the financial services firms with 844 companies and they are responsible for the largest chunk of revenue each year. In our industry scheme these firms run the gamut of everything from banks to payment services, insurance, securities trades, credit agencies, and holding companies. Nearly […]
Russian Companies in The Global 5000
When we first assembled The Global 5000 we focused efforts on not only finding the largest companies in the world but also doing the research of looking for big companies in every country in the world. That included places like Russia – which at the time did not seem like a big issue. Fast forward […]
Introducing the Food 400
Many different analytical pieces we come across focus on specific industries or verticals and those are often based on fairly specific labeling of industry schema – SIC codes or NAICs, etc. We have taken a broader view for analysis and trend purposes. Each company in our database gets assigned a specific segment label and those are largely […]
There Is No Fortune 5000
We regularly get questions asking if we match up to and include the Fortune 5000 in our Global 5000 database. There is no Fortune 5000. Fortune produces the well known and long standing Fortune 500 list of the top US companies. That has been expanded to 1000 firms which are public and US based. Fortune […]
More on Private Companies . . . and the IPOs That Didn’t Happen
One of the unique aspects of our Global 5000 is that we not only include public companies but also any private firms whose revenue is large enough to make it on the list of the top 5,000 companies in the world. We maintain a large database of companies and select the largest 5,000 which means […]
Database Update for Global 50 (Q1 2025)
We have completed our database updates for Q1 2025 with over 1500 company records updated and here’s a snapshot of what we are seeing: During Q1, 48 new companies were added to the Global 5000 Currently, the Global 5000 companies report revenue exceeding $77 trillion. They employ over 171 million people. The average revenue per employee […]
The Private Companies
One of the unique elements of our Global 5000 database is the inclusion of private companies alongside the publics. Most popularly published lists (Fortune lists or Forbes Global 2000 for example) contain only public companies. We have over 1160 private companies as part of The Global 5000 representing $17 trillion in revenue – approximately 23% of […]