Institutional Investor (January 12)
The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, “has acquired Global Infrastructure Partners, one of the world’s biggest independent investors in roads, airports, utilities and other projects.” The deal marks “BlackRock’s biggest in 15 years, since it bought Barclays Global Investors in 2009.” The impetus for the acquisition? “Today, infrastructure is a $1 trillion market but it is forecasted to be one of the fastest growing segments of private markets.”
Tags: Fastest-growing
Inc (September Issue)
The Inc. 5000 is “our annual ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies…. Only this year, the road ahead looks very different. Picture K2, only with more avalanches and less oxygen.” But their response may surprise. “At presstime, only 11 percent had cut staff since March, while 47 percent were landing talent let loose by others.” Though there has been belt tightening, “their eyes got bigger. More than 40 percent of honorees say current conditions make it more important than ever to scale quickly. Just 10 percent feel it would be best to slow down.”
Tags: Avalanches, Fastest-growing, Inc. 5000, K2, Private, Ranking, Scale quickly, Slow down, Staff, Talent, Tightening
San Francisco Chronicle (August 10)
“A troubling trend has emerged in the Bay Area and around the nation: More young people are getting sick, in numbers so large that in some regions they now make up the largest and fastest-growing demographic contracting the virus.” Although are far less likely to die of COVID-19, youths with milder symptoms often risk exposing others and many of them still wind up with “symptoms severe enough to send them to the emergency room or intensive care.”
Tags: Bay Area, COVID-19, Demographic, Die, Emergency room, Fastest-growing, Risk, Sick, Symptoms, Trend, Troubling, Young people
Bloomberg (May 28)
“Vietnam was one of the fastest-growing sources of American imports from Asia last quarter.” Imports to the U.S. “jumped 40.2% in the first three months of 2019 from a year earlier…. If Vietnam’s pace of growth can be sustained for a full year—which would be a major feat—it could leapfrog Italy, France, the U.K., and India in the ranks of top exporters to the U.S.”
Inc (September Issue)
SwanLeap has become “the fastest-growing private company in America.” Based in Madison, Wisconsin, the company “uses an artificial intelligence platform and custom software to help huge manufacturers, retailers, and other clients save money on shipping, and better manage their supply chains.” In 2013, SwanLeap’s first year revenues totaled $110,000. In 2017, the firm took in “just shy of $100 million, good for a nosebleed-inducing three-year growth rate of 75,660.8 percent.” In 2018, it’s aiming for $500 million.
Tags: AI, Fastest-growing, Growth rate, Manufacturers, Retailers, SCM, Shipping, SwanLeap, U.S., Wisconsin
Bloomberg (February 8)
“Boosted by an expanding middle class, India and Indonesia will enter the ranks of the five largest, as well as the fastest growing air-passenger markets by 2036. China will post the quickest passenger growth and also overtake the U.S. as the biggest air-travel market. Turkey rounds up the top five markets that are expanding at the fastest pace.”
Tags: Air, China, Expanding, Fastest-growing, India, Indonesia, Middle class, Passenger, Travel, Turkey, U.S.
Bloomberg (July 25)
“With a young population, an expanding middle class and one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing economies, Vietnam is an alluring market for Aeon, Takashimaya Co. and Seven & i Holdings Co. The reason: China is slowing and growth is flat-lining at home.”
Tags: Aeon, China, Economies, Fastest-growing, Growth, Japan, Market, Middle class, Population, Seven & i, Southeast Asia, Takashimaya, Vietnam, Young
Bloomberg (March 30)
“India has eclipsed China as the world’s fastest-growing major economy with gross domestic product projected to expand 7.6 percent in the fiscal year through March.”
