Dun & Bradstreet

Dun & Bradstreet

Type	Public (NYSE: DNB)
Founded	New York City, New York 1841
Headquarters	Short Hills, New Jersey, USA
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

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 150 million global companies.

D-U-N-S

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, AR/AP, etc..), 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 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]

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

See also

• AllBusiness.com
• Paydex
• DUNS

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 your company. It is recognised, recommended and/or required by more than 50 global, industry and trade associations, including the United Nations, the U.S. Federal Government, the Australian Government and the European Commission

Within Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Customer Resource Management (CRM), and Customer Information Management (CIM) solutions, the D-U-N-S Number can help ensure more accurate data rationalisation. This means that you can have confidence in the quality of information you use to manage your business.

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

References

1. ^ Securities & Exchange Commission (2008-02-25). "2008 SEC 10-K". http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1115222/000119312508037503/d10k.htm. 

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