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 April 2020, 29 new companies were added to the Global 5000 database. This brings our total new adds over the last 12 months to 228. During the month, 727 company records were updated as the 2019 financials have begun being reported.
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 April included:
- Carrier Corporation was spun off by United Technologies as part of its merger with Raytheon
- Otis Worldwide was also spun off by United Technologies as part of its merger with Raytheon
- Howmet Aerospace was spun off by Arconic Corporation
- BGF Retail of South Korea is a $5 billion retailer
- Vodacom Group of South Africa is a $6 billion communications provider
And some of the notable firms we removed from the active file include the following: (all due to acquisitions)
- Sprint was acquired by T-Mobile (a unit of Deutsche Telekom)
- WellCare Health Plans was acquired by Centene
- Anadarko was acquired by Occidental Petroleum
- First Data was acquired by Fiserv
- Diplomat Pharmacy was acquired by UnitedHealthcare
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.