Dun & Bradstreet
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| Company type | Public (NYSE: DNB) S&P 500 Component |
|---|---|
| Founded | New York City, New York 1841 |
| Headquarters | Short Hills, New Jersey, U.S. |
Key people | Sara S. Mathew, Chairman & CEO Walter S. Hauck III, Senior VP, Technology and Chief Information Officer |
| Products | Business information, services, research, software |
| Revenue | $1.443 billion USD (2005) |
Number of employees | 4,350 (2005) |
| Website | www.dnb.com |
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 "D&B", the company is perhaps best known for its D-U-N-S (Data Universal Numbering System) identifiers assigned to over 175 million global companies.
D-U-N-S
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D&B's D-U-N-S Numbers are Business Information Reports. Numbers and reports go hand-in-hand. They may include the following: Extended credit terms, trade experiences, principal's history, financials (including net worth, cash on hand, and AR/AP), UCC Filings, Public Records, Liens, Suits, volume sales, employee number, terms to liabilities, start date, and even type of building in which company is located. The unique and patented DUN System blends specific industry sectors with numeric sequencing providing a multitude of sector-based information that is compared and contrasted with like industries in a local, state and regional format.
The DUN System is utilized by many major banks/lenders, insurance and finance companies as well as municipalities, Federal agencies and endorsed by the European Union as the primary identification system for International business assessment and validation throughout the world. The DUNS/BIR (Business Information Report) is required for many US federal government transactions, so are widely used as a leveraging tool to win bids and portray a stable and creditworthy business, able to meet its obligations and can validate what it professes. The system is frequently used in corporate research.
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 important 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)
Competition
According to D&B's latest annual SEC filing D&B lists Experian, Equifax, MarketWatch, InfoUSA and Yahoo! Finance as competitors.[1]
See also
DUNS Number and Electronic Messages
A D&B D-U-N-S Number is a unique nine-digit sequence recognized as the universal standard for identifying and keeping track of over 151 million businesses worldwide. It enables potential customers, suppliers and lenders to easily identify and learn about a company.
+4 are used in electronic messages as identifiers for locations. See, for example, RosettaNet.
References
- ^ Securities & Exchange Commission (2008-02-25). "2008 SEC 10-K".