Who Are the Largest Global 5000 Companies?

For 2008 the top 10 Global 5000 companies were (in order of revenue)
ExxonMobil
Royal Dutch Shell
Wal-Mart Stores
BP
Chevron
ConocoPhillips
Total SA
Sinopec
ING
Toyota Motors
Revenue for these top 10 grew 15% over the previous year.

Does Geography Matter for Global 5000 ?

In this economic mess, there is a lot of debate about which economy, which country and which industries will lead the way out of the doldrums.
Part of the interest is focused on companies and which ones are truly global and where are the companies located. In a world economy and one that has shrunk [...]

Growth in the Fortune 500

Every year when Fortune publishes their list of largest US companies — the Fortune 500 or 1000 — it is always interesting to get a sense of growth in business. Especially these days.
If you wanted to make the F1000 this year, your sales/revenue needed to be $1.729 billion. That honor goes to Career [...]

Another Restructuring Thought

Most of the news regarding restructuring is about companies restructuring rather than oveall industries that we highlighted in the previous post.
The company restructuring announcements are usually code words for companies shedding jobs or closing product lines or selling business lines — in other words ….. shrinking.
And these are curious things. Makes one wonder if [...]

Big and Under the Radar

While doing our regular database updates to the Global 5000 db, we came across an interesting stat for those organizations that have targeted marketing& sales efforts.
We started by looking at billion $ companies last year – there are about 2600 of them. Then eliminated any that appeared on Fotrune 100 or Global 500 or [...]

Global 5000 Retailers

‘Tis the season that retailers start posting earnings and financials. A good portion of them have a fiscal year that is a January ending (rather than December for most US industrials) and this is the reporting timeframe.
There are approximately 225 retailers in the Global 5000 database. To date we have 96 of [...]

Wireless Growth

Anyone who has watched the telecomm industry over the last handful of years understands the major shifts that have occurred with landline providers watching their base erode coupled with the growth of wireless. To emphasize that point we examined the revenue growth of 10 wireless providers in the Global 5000 database.
These are not the [...]

Global 5000 updates 15 Mar 08

During the past week, we updated 270 Global 5000 company records.
The largest companies for this week were:
ExxonMobil at $404 billion
Chevron with $220 billion
Ford reporting $172 billion.
These three companies as a group grew 6.7% last year. This is right in line with the entire set of companies we updated at 6.9% annual revenue [...]