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Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB), the world's leading source of global business information, knowledge and insight, has been enabling companies to Decide with Confidence® for 168 years. D&B's global commercial database contains more than 155 million business records. The database is enhanced by D&B's proprietary DUNSRight® Quality Process, which transforms the enormous amount of data collected daily into decision-ready insight. Through the D&B Worldwide Network – an unrivaled alliance of D&B and leading business information providers around the world – customers gain access to the world's largest and highest quality global commercial business information database.
Customers use D&B Risk Management Solutions to mitigate risk, increase cash flow and drive increased profitability, D&B Sales & Marketing Solutions to analyse markets, locate prospects and increase revenue from new and existing customers; D&B Export Marketing Solutions to gain significant insight into overseas markets and increase sales; D&B Learning Solutions to facilitate professional growth and excellence among their executives and D&B Economic Analysis Group to derive pragmatic and solution-oriented analyses of strategic economic and business developments, thereby aiding informed decision making.
D&B features on FORTUNE Magazine's Most Admired Companies Industry List, ranking first in the Financial Data Services category. D&B ranked first in the areas of employee talent, financial soundness, long-term investment, quality of management and use of corporate assets. D&B has achieved this distinction for the fourth consecutive year.
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Ulysses S Grant |
Grover Cleveland |
William B McKinley |
The 1840s in America were a period of unprecedented commercial growth, and with it, unprecedented business risk. So Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) was born, to provide objective credit assessments on which trading partners on opposite coasts could base their relationships.
Lewis Tappan, the man behind this great idea, envisaged a system where credit would be granted according to sound information gathered methodically by men of strict principle - men such as future U.S. Presidents - Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland and William B. McKinley - who served as D&B credit correspondents early in their careers.
Tappan foresaw that business information would be a catalyst for growth, and foster an open and ethical business environment. Those goals still inform our business today. Since our first offices opened some 165 years ago, they have driven our progress towards market leadership as the trusted business insight provider to customers globally.
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D&B will continue to work with customers, of all sizes and types, in every area of business, to help them make smarter, faster decisions about every aspect of business. |
Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India Pvt. Ltd.
D&B’s Indian operations started in 1995 and the company has offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.
Dun & Bradstreet Information Services India Pvt. Ltd. (D&B India) offers a wide suite of information solutions and its services are used extensively by banks, financial institutions, multinationals, corporate entities, public sector undertakings, exporters and importers.
Strategic Alliances / Partnerships
Export Credit Guarantee Corporation of India Ltd. (ECGC)
D&B India has an alliance with ECGC, the country’s only export credit insurer, for making available D&B products and services to exporters across the country.
Credit Information Bureau (India) Ltd. (CIBIL)
D&B India set up India’s first commercial and consumer credit bureau CIBIL in partnership with State Bank of India (SBI), Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC), TransUnion and several public and private sector banks.
SME Rating Agency of India Ltd. (SMERA)
D&B India has partnered with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and CIBIL to set up SMERA, India’s first rating agency focused on the small & medium enterprise (SME) sector.
The world’s most comprehensive commercial database
D&B manages the world’s most valuable commercial database with information on 131 million companies. Business information is gathered in over 200 countries, in 82 languages or dialects, covering 181 monetary currencies. The database is refreshed over 1.5 million times a day as part of our commitment to provide accurate, comprehensive information to our customers globally.
Total companies in the D&B database: 131,731,289
- 90,424,079 active companies in the D&B database
- 41,307,210 inactive companies available with historical information for file matching and data cleansing purposes
Active companies by region*
| Region | |
| Africa | 1,634,694 |
| Asia Pacific | 18,568,697 |
| Europe | 52,046,370 |
| Middle East | 430,694 |
| Latin America | 10,933,358 |
| North America | 48,117,476 |
| Grand Total | 131,731,289 |
| * As of May 2008 |
D&B Global Information File Inventory*
| Information | Total |
| Total Number of Businesses | 115,377,557 |
| Payment and Bank Experiences | 693,000,000 |
Public Records (includes Suits, Liens, Judgements, Bankruptcies and other Government information) |
140,000,000 |
| Company Records part of a Family Tree | 8,745,967 |
| * As of January 2008 |
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