Type: Public
On the web: http://www.dnb.com
Employees: 5,200
Employee growth: 4.0%

For The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, there's no business like "know" business. The company, known as D&B, is one of the world's leading suppliers of business information, services, and research. Its database contains information on more than 200 million companies in over 200 countries, including the largest volume of business-credit information in the world. The company's risk management segment (the largest segment, accounting for more than half of D&B's revenues) sells that information and integrates it into software products and Web-based applications. D&B also offers marketing information and purchasing-support services. The company acquired Hoover's, the publisher of this profile, in 2003.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2010:
Sales: $1,676.6M
One year growth: (0.6%)
Net income: $252.1M
Income growth: (21.1%)

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Sara S. Mathew
SVP and CFO: Richard H. (Rich) Veldran
SVP Technology and CIO: Walter S. (Walt) Hauck III

Competitors:
Equifax
infogroup
Moody's

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