Home Depot to acquire SRS Distribution Inc.
The Home Depot has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SRS Distribution Inc. SRS will accelerate The Home Depot’s growth with the residential professional customer. Under the terms of the merger agreement, a subsidiary of The Home Depot will acquire SRS for a total enterprise value (including net debt) of approximately $18.25 billion.Acquisition ● Construction ● […]
Cisco Acquires Splunk
Cisco announced it completed the acquisition of Splunk, setting the foundation for delivering visibility and insights across an organization’s entire digital footprint.Acquisition ● Technology ● North America Additional News BASIC MATERIALSJohnson Matthey Signs Agreement to Sell Its Medical Device Components Business for US$700m BUSINESS SERVICESAccenture Acquires Flo GroupClarivate Acquires AI Start MotionHallWSP Acquires Communica CONSTRUCTIONCarlisle Companies to […]
Mondi Plc Agrees to Buy DS Smith Plc
Mondi Plc agreed to buy DS Smith Plc for £5.1 billion ($6.5 billion) in a deal that would create one of the world’s largest makers of packaging. The agreement in principle has an implied value of 373 pence a share. Announcement Link Additional News BUSINESS SERVICESFTI Consulting Acquires Madison Consulting GroupUnited Rentals to Acquire Yak […]
What Moves the Needle for Large Companies?
The one metric we track diligently for all the companies in the database is annual revenue. That is the measure by which we compare all companies for ranking and determine which are the Global 5000. While some companies can catch a shooting star and see their revenue climb to unthought of heights — those are […]
Global 5000 Database Update – May 2018
We finished the month of May with 406 records updated. Included in our activity were 16 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 […]
Global 5000 Database – list of countries
For those who like lists of companies and locations for lead generation, we ran the most recent count (31 March 2018) of companies in each country. No big surprises as USA is the largest followed by China, Japan, UK and Germany. Argentina 7 Australia 82 Austria 18 Bahamas 2 Bahrain 2 Belarus 1 Belgium 28 […]