M&A Activities for The Global 5000 Companies – July 2013
Each month we track the corporate activity for the Global 5000 companies as they acquire new businesses or divest of various operations. These ‘comings and goings’ are interesting and shape markets over time. In the short run, there are real implications for companies serving these large organizations and national account programs where various teams are […]
M&A Activity For Global 5000 Companies – May 2013
Each month we track the corporate activity for the Global 5000 companies as they acquire new businesses or divest of various operations. These ‘comings and goings’ are interesting and shape markets over time. In the short run, there are real implications for companies serving these large organizations and national account programs where various teams are […]
New Fortune 500 Company Rankings are Included in The Global 5000
This week, CNNMoney posted their annual Fortune 500 rankings for 2013. These rankings are for US public companies and these 500 firms are included in the broader Global 5000 database. As has been the case over the past few years, Wal-Mart and Exxon Mobil were #1 and #2. Both GM and Ford were in the […]
Global M&A Activity – April 2013
Each month we track the corporate activity for the Global 5000 companies as they acquire new businesses or divest of various operations. These ‘comings and goings’ are interesting and shape markets over time. In the short run, there are real implications for companies serving these large organizations and national account programs where various teams are […]
updated – Where the Global 5000 Companies Are – population by country
This data has been updated to reflect October 2014 — please go to this page Here is a look at where The Global 5000 companies are located – top 20 countries by number of Global 5000 companies
Global M&A Data for March 2013
Each month we track the corporate activity for the Global 5000 companies as they acquire new businesses or divest of various operations. These ‘comings and goings’ are interesting and shape markets over time. In the short run, there are real implications for companies serving these large organizations and national account programs where various teams are […]
Global M&A Activity for February 2013
Each month we track the corporate activity for the Global 5000 companies as they acquire new businesses or divest of various operations. These ‘comings and goings’ are interesting and shape markets over time. In the short run, there are real implications for companies serving these large organizations and national account programs where various teams are […]
The Top 10 Airlines – and if American and US Air were to merge
With the current talk of an imminent deal between US Air and American Airlines (AMR) we took a look at the largest airline companies in the world by revenue. 2011 is the last full year of reported figures with 2012 not yet fully released. Assuming these 2 got together back then, the top 10 lineup […]
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 […]
Updates for Spending on Corporate Training and Education
We have updated our estimates of the amount companies spend on corporate education and training. The data is based on survey research that generated averages of spending by industry (vertical markets) and number of employees by various regions of the world. Taking all that into a model, these estimates were then applied to each company […]