During the month of July, we added another 39 new companies, removed 14 more bringing the total active records to 4.870. To date this year, we have added 262 companies to the database. As with any set of b2bdata, pruning and constant attention is a must
Some of the largest new companies added include:
- Bank of Beijing – $14 bln revenue
- Cheil Industries of South Korea $11 bln chemical producer
- Cinda Asset Mgt – $11 bln in revenue
- Veritive Corp of Atlanta an $8 bln container & pkg company
- Anbang Insurance Group
All of these are multi-billion enterprises – worthy of inclusion in your select accounts list. If they are not yet targets or in your CRM systems, then now is a good time to add them.
These firms were removed due to acquisition or merger and are no longer stand-alone entities:
- BG Group acquired by Shell
- Kraft Foods group merged w/Heinz
- Lafarge as it was acquired by Holcim
- Unisource was merged into Veritiv
- Roundy’s grocery acquired by Kroger
More information about the Global 5000 database is on this page.