Global 5000 Database

Database Update for The Global 5000 – Q2 2025

Harry — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 01:18:36 +0000

We have completed our database updates for Q2 2025 with over 2300 company records updated and here’s a snapshot of what we are seeing:

During Q2, 38 new companies were added to the Global 5000
Currently, the Global 5000 companies report revenue exceeding $77 trillion.
They employ over 171 million people.
The average revenue per employee for these companies is $448,000.
There are 1,164 private companies in the Global 5000.

During Q2- here are the 5 largest additions to the database:

Shanxi Construction Engineering Group
InVivo – the French agricultural coop
TCS Group Holding
Seatrium Limited – a construction business in Singapore
Bnei Brak of Israel

And the big players removed from the Global 5000 during the quarter include:

HNA Technology Co. Ltd. was reclassified as a holding company and revenue adjusted
Discover Financial Services was acquired by Capitol One
Berry Global was acquired by AMcor
Nebius (fmr Yandex NV) revenue fell
Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. spun off its studio business

Always a lot of change. With all these changes we updated our rankings for all the Global 5000 companies.

In addition to the weekly news headlines, we post key M&A actions to our LinkedIn page.

As always, we thank you for your support for the Global 5000 database and encourage you to reach out with any questions.

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The Next Candidates for The Global 5000

Harry — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 04:15:13 +0000

Our work involving annual updating and ongoing tracking of Global 5000 companies always brings an array of activity causing some companies to get removed from the list. Typically it is M&A related or company revenues coming up short of what is needed to be in the top 5000.

When this happens, we need to find replacements from our list of candidate companies in our research database. Two events popped up this week that illustrate how we keep track of these next candidates and the Global 5000 companies in the making might be.

(1) Last week, Conagra Brands (ranked #1407) announced they are selling some branded product lines (Van De Kamp and Mrs Paul’s) to High Liner Foods. High Liner is not a Global 5000 business at this point. It’s revenues are below a $1billion. We have them on our research list and will check in with their next year results to see if they will have grown enough to be included.

(2) Another spinoff / split of a Global 5000 company is in the making when Warner Bros. Discovery (ranked #401) released a report that it will split into two companies. This follows a number of media combinations and splits between studio resources and media outlets as the media market continues to evolve. We expect this won’t be the last in that segment.

The Warner Brother split will form two companies – most likely both of them will be large enough to be included in The Global 5000.

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Global 5000 M&A Market Update

Harry — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 13:22:09 +0000

Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Informatica
Salesforce and Informatica have entered into an agreement for Salesforce to acquire Informatica for approximately $8 billion in equity value, net of Salesforce’s current investment in Informatica. The planned acquisition will enhance Salesforce’s data foundation critical for deploying powerful and responsible agentic AI.
Acquisition ● Technology ● North America

Medtronic Announces Intent to Separate Diabetes Business
Medtronic announced its intent to separate its Diabetes business into a new standalone company (“New Diabetes Company”). This strategic decision for both Medtronic and New Diabetes Company will create a more focused Medtronic, with a more simplified portfolio in high margin growth markets. At the same time, it will create an independent, scaled leader in Diabetes.
Spin-off ● Healthcare ● Europe

Finastra to Sell Treasury and Capital Markets Division to Apax Funds
Finastra and funds advised by Apax Partners announced that they have entered into an agreement under which Finastra intends to sell its Treasury and Capital Markets business unit to an affiliate of Apax. Upon completion of the transaction, TCM will be rebranded and operated as a standalone business.
Divestiture ● Technology ● Europe

Capital One Completes Acquisition of Discover
Capital One Financial Corporation announced that it has completed its acquisition of Discover Financial Services. Capital One announced on February 19, 2024, that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Discover.
Acquisition ● Financial Services ● North America

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More Retail M&A

Harry — Mon, 19 May 2025 01:48:41 +0000

This week’s M&A announcements involving Global 5000 companies once again had some retail activity – Dick’s Sporting Goods (ranked #1306) will be acquiring Foot Locker (ranked #1859). Revenue for the combined companies tops $20 billion annually, but like all things retail and mall-related these days, they face an uncertain path forward.

We’ll refer you back to an earlier post where we highlighted a couple of retail players who were going away. The retail space is brutal these days. Foot Locker has been a shopping mall staple for years and (for the most part) shopping malls are not the place for retail these days. We hope Dick’s got a good deal on this one.

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Deals and Finances

Harry — Mon, 12 May 2025 02:14:57 +0000

The largest group of companies in The Global 5000 database are the financial services firms with 844 companies and they are responsible for the largest chunk of revenue each year.

In our industry scheme these firms run the gamut of everything from banks to payment services, insurance, securities trades, credit agencies, and holding companies. Nearly everything we touch financially.

One of the big headline makers for these companies revolve around “the deal”. Whether that deal is an IPO or an M&A, a spin-off or a bankruptcy, there are millions of dollars, many players and high visibility all around. Intense media focus also surrounds every deal.

As we sit here in the front half of 2025, the money (revenue) that flows from deals is headed for a tough year not only in terms of volume but also the makeup and players involved in deals. There appear to be two main drivers affecting the market: (1) is the uncertainty surrounding the tariff actions, negotiations, and discussions and (2) is the climate in the M&A market re: what deals will be allowed to proceed. Both these elements are causing uncertainty and we have seen over and over again that uncertainty will cause business spending to slow down.

With a slow down in the financial transactions, many of the financial services firms will see their fees shrink and revenues will drop as the year progresses unless there is some unforeseen turnaround. Those organizations selling to JP Morgan, HSBC, Bank of America, and the big four banks in China need to be right on top of their opportunities or deals in the pipeline which could be prime candidates for delay or cancellation.

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Russian Companies in The Global 5000

Harry — Mon, 05 May 2025 01:36:19 +0000

When we first assembled The Global 5000 we focused efforts on not only finding the largest companies in the world but also doing the research of looking for big companies in every country in the world. That included places like Russia – which at the time did not seem like a big issue.

Fast forward to 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine and the resulting sanctions, export controls, and company pullouts and that picture is less than clear today. Trying to get facts and figures out of Russian companies and the business climate is a mess

Looking back a few years . . . In 2019, the Global 5000 companies generated nearly $64 trillion of revenue with Russia representing $816 billion of that figure. Recently in 2023 (the last year where we had full data) the Global 5000 company revenue grew 21% to over $77 trillion but Russian companies in the Global 5000 actually saw revenue shrink to $718 billion.

Rosneft Oil, Gazprom, and Lukoil were among the largest in the world and are the largest in Russia. We can get some information out of the large players but not all – particularly where the Russian government has taken over the full ownership. Most of the data and figures are the result of anecdotal facts.

The bottom line here is that when looking at global markets, global figures or total market opportunity, there will be pockets where the markets are not available – like Russia right now – and your market data and plans will need to be adjusted for that and focused on the Total Available Market.

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Introducing the Food 400

Harry — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 17:04:18 +0000

Many different analytical pieces we come across focus on specific industries or verticals and those are often based on fairly specific labeling of industry schema – SIC codes or NAICs, etc.

We have taken a broader view for analysis and trend purposes. Each company in our database gets assigned a specific segment label and those are largely based on global SIC code schemes. We assign them based on where the company derives most of their revenue even though they may have products and services in multiple segments. Then each segment is rolled up to a higher industry level.

That concept generally works ok, but there are many cases where an ecosystem approach can provide better insight. We use this ecosystem approach in transportation as one example where we look at all the data for transporting everything – people and “things” – by land, sea, air, rail or water.

Another ecosystem is food where many parts of the food chain move in synch and often need to be examined in tandem. In this food cohort, we have identified a top 400 companies that include agriculture, food & beverage manufacturers, restaurants and food stores. They are all interrelated and somewhat dependent on one another. It is a convenient way to look at a market.

This ‘Food 400” includes Cargill at the top with over $185 billion in revenue down to pizza maker Papa John’s with $2.1 billion in revenue. In total, they account for $6.4 trillion in revenue and employ over 21 million people.

Coming out of Covid in 2021, revenues for this group of companies grew 13%, then 8.4% in 2022 but 2023 and 2024 growth slowed to 1%. That slow growth mode for the past couple of years could be one of the drivers behind the current pain we are all feeling at the grocery stores and when we enjoy a meal out. Companies need to show growth – and they haven’t been.

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There Is No Fortune 5000

Harry — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:20:01 +0000

We regularly get questions asking if we match up to and include the Fortune 5000 in our Global 5000 database.

There is no Fortune 5000.

Fortune produces the well known and long standing Fortune 500 list of the top US companies. That has been expanded to 1000 firms which are public and US based. Fortune also publishes a number of other lists like the Global 500, a European version, an Asia version and others. In all those cases, they are public companies.

Forbes produces an annual list of the top US private companies. The most recent addition had just over 200 private US companies that had revenue over $2 billion. Forbes also produces the Forbes Global 2000 which are 2,000 public companies from around the world. They are ranked on a Forbes-built model that takes into consideration, revenue, market cap and profits.

When those various lists are published (as well as others), we do review them and compare them to the Global 5000 to make sure we haven’t missed any. We also look for other “top company” lists that are often published by various industry cuts and lists published by country or region.

Find out more about the Global 5000 list.

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More on Private Companies . . . and the IPOs That Didn’t Happen

Harry — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 02:43:32 +0000

One of the unique aspects of our Global 5000 is that we not only include public companies but also any private firms whose revenue is large enough to make it on the list of the top 5,000 companies in the world.

We maintain a large database of companies and select the largest 5,000 which means we are continually researching and updating more than 5,000 in order to have replacements for M&A actions and have a method for including fast climbers.

This past couple of weeks during the turmoil of the market, four of these ‘up & comer’ private companies pulled back on their IPO plans.

No surprise, of course, given current market volatility.

For The Global 5000, they remain in the database, just marked as private companies and we keep on tracking and updating them – no change.

They should be on your prospect list / in your CRM systems as well.

Check out:
Stada Arzneimittel AG – a $4 billion German pharma company
Klarna – $2+ billion financial payments firm
StubHub – $1.7 billion ticketing company
eToro – the $12 billion Israeli trading platform

There are over 1100 private firms included in The Global 5000

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Database Update for Global 50 (Q1 2025)

Harry — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 18:21:22 +0000

We have completed our database updates for Q1 2025 with over 1500 company records updated and here’s a snapshot of what we are seeing:

During Q1, 48 new companies were added to the Global 5000
Currently, the Global 5000 companies report revenue exceeding $77 trillion.
They employ over 171 million people.
The average revenue per employee for these companies is $448,000.
There are 1,164 private companies in the Global 5000.

During Q1- here are the 5 largest additions to the database:

Shanxi Huayang New Material Co Ltd
Viva Energy Group
Smithfield Foods
Tauron Polska Energia SA
Statkraft A/S

And the big players removed from the Global 5000 during the quarter include:

Avangrid – which is now wholly owned by Iberdrola
EnLink Midstream – acquired by ONEOK
Virgin Money UK – was acquired by Nationwide Building Society
M.D.C. Holdings was acquired by Sekisui House of Japan
Mattress Firm Group – acquired by Tempur Seal

Always a lot of change. With all these changes we updated our rankings for all the Global 5000 companies

Other update info —

We have started doing more analytical work on industry and segment groupings and have created a series of industry ecosystems. Think of them as “super groups” Take transportation for example. In addition to the typical transportation SIC or NAICS code concept our transportation ecosystem includes those traditional industries but also auto manufacturers, port and airport operators and similar related businesses.

We have created other ecosystems around food, financial businesses, leisure and energy. It is a more wholistic way to look at how markets move and are shaped.

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