We finished the month of April with 390 records updated. Included in our activity were 21 companies added and deleted. For those of you producing a list for your sales teams, you need to keep watching those updates and market activity to keep the list current. Our database remains at 99% currency – all 5,000 records have had an update within the past 12 months.
We continue to see a robust level of M&A activity. For those firms looking for lead generation opportunities, their databases will need to be updated with all these new combinations . . . and some spin-offs.
Among the key new firms added are:
- Hanover RE Insurance
- Meituan and Dianping – a $6 billion Chinese retailer
- Sibanye Gold Limited, a South African mining company
- DFDS, the Norwegian transportation company
- Jowden Jinery Group of UK
At the same time companies removed during April include some where their revenue that fell short of the minimum as well as those merged or acquired:
- CalAtlantic Group was acquired by Lennar
- VWR was acquired by Avantor
- Unified Western Grocers was acquired by Supervalu
- HSN (Home Shopping Network) was acquired by Liberty Interactive
- CIRCOR International’s revenue fell below the bottom of the Global 5000
More information about the Global 5000 database is on this page.