Large Companies Increasing Sales Budgets at Triple the Pace of Small Competitors

VANCOUVER, Wash., June 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- DiscoverOrg announced today the results of its inaugural Purchasing Power Survey, measuring year-over-year shifts in corporate departmental spending, which found strong evidence that competition among U.S.-based companies will increase dramatically throughout the coming year.

The survey shows that 71% of companies have increased their expense budgets for this fiscal year, and, among those companies, increases averaged a whopping 41%.

Combining those significant budget increases with data showing that Sales departments, on average, hold the largest share of total budgets (23%), the survey indicates that competition among sales teams in 2019 will be fiercer than last year.

“These results should come as a warning to salespeople, sales department heads and CEOs everywhere that they will have to perform at absolute peak performance to stay ahead of well-funded competitors,” said Henry Schuck, founder and CEO of DiscoverOrg.

Throughout the rest of the corporate organization, Manufacturing/Operations/Production departments represented the second-largest share of overall budgets, at 21%, followed by Marketing at 16%, IT at 11%, Accounting/Finance/ Procurement at 9% and Human Resources at 7%.

Smaller Companies on Their Heels
The sales teams of smaller companies (revenues of less than $150M) should expect their larger competitors to be even more visible than they already are. Larger companies (revenues of $150M or greater) are planning on an 11% increase in spending on sales, versus only a 3% increase by their smaller counterparts.

Supporting the sales effort, Marketing department spending will also increase, but both small and large companies will increase that spending at about the same rate (9% and 11%, respectively).

Technology Spending to Aid Sales Efforts
Asked which departments have allocated the largest percentage of their budget to technology spending, Sales was once again on top with 21% of its budget dedicated to expenditures like software upgrades or new hardware.

Other departments are similarly dedicating sizable percentages of their budgets to technology spending: Manufacturing/Operations/Production (19%), Marketing (15%), IT (13%), Accounting/Finance/Procurement (12%), Engineering/R&D (12%) and Human Resources (6%).

Download the full report here.

Methodology
The DiscoverOrg Purchasing Power Survey was conducted by Wakefield Research between March 7 and March 21, 2019, among 500 U.S. CFOs. The survey fielded CFOs from companies with $1B+ AUM for finance companies and, for all other company types, a requirement of $100M or more in annual revenue and/or 500+ employees.

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