Dun & Bradstreet

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The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
Type Public (NYSE: DNB)
Founded New York City, New York 1841
Headquarters Short Hills, New Jersey
Key people Steven W. Alesio, Chairman/CEO
Sara S. Mathew, President/COO
Jeff Hurwitz, General Counsel
Products Business information, services, research, software
Revenue $1.443 billion USD (2005)
Employees 4,350 (2005)
Website www.dnb.com
"D&B" redirects here. For other uses, see D&B (disambiguation).

The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (NYSE: DNB), headquartered in Short Hills, New Jersey, USA, is a provider of credit information on businesses and corporations. Often referred to as just D&B, the company is perhaps best known for its D-U-N-S (Data Universal Numbering System) identifiers assigned to over 100 million global companies.

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[edit] D-U-N-S

D&B's D-U-N-S numbers are used to identify businesses around the world. They are required for many US federal government transactions, so are widely used and assigned. They are frequently used in corporate research[citation needed].

DMI entries provide legal and trade names, physical and mailing addresses, geographical descriptions, product and industry descriptors, sales and number of employees for three years and growth rates, as well as up to 40 vital statistics about each organization:

  • Corporate and competitive intelligence
  • Market research
  • Mailing lists
  • Trade name research
  • Merger and acquisition analysis
  • Industry statistics
  • Telemarketing lists
  • New product development
  • Corporate family trees

(Adapted from DBUS - Dun & Bradstreet US Duns Market Identifiers)

[edit] Company

On January, 29, 2008 D&B announced a realignment which would result in the elimination of redundant business functions and include a round of layoffs.

[edit] Competition

According to D&B's latest annual SEC filing D&B lists Experian, Equifax, MarketWatch, InfoUSA and Yahoo! Finance as competitors.[1]

Corporate information competitors include Hot Frog, Zoominfo, InsideView and LexisNexis Corporate Affiliations.

[edit] The Age / Dun & Bradstreet Best Business of the Year award

The Age and Dun & Bradstreet annually award an Australian business the title of 'Best Business of the Year'. On November 9th 2007, Beacon Lighting, an Australian lighting retailer won the award. Pronto Software, an Australian software developer, won the award in 2006.

[edit] See also

[edit] DUNS Number and Electronic Messages

+4 are used in electronic messages as identifiers for locations. See, for example, RosettaNet.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Securities & Exchange Commission (2008-02-25). "2008 SEC 10-K".

[edit] External links

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