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Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) is the leading provider of business-to-business
credit, marketing, purchasing, and receivables management and decision-support
services worldwide. Customers rely upon D&B to provide the insight they
need to build profitable, quality business relationships with their customers,
suppliers, business partners - the companies they interact with every day.
Our access systems and value-added solutions make it easy for customers to
select the information they need, and use it with their technologies of choice
to run their businesses effectively.
We also are helping companies manage their supply chain
more effectively and profitably with information, guidance and support that can
facilitate effective, profitable relationships with suppliers and customers.
In the business-to-business marketplace, Dun & Bradstreet is the
indispensable source of content, information-management expertise and business
insight that customers need to make more informed decisions and build
profitable relationships.
To learn about our comprehensive database, which now covers more than 52 million
businesses in over 200 countries, and D&B's commitment to quality, read on.
We help customers make more profitable decisions.
Dun & Bradstreet is recognized around the world as the leader in providing
global business expertise and information to customers. D&B helps customers
interpret and utilize D&B's information and its own data, making D&B
the preferred source for business expertise.
The promise is quality . . . the outcome is insight. At Dun &
Bradstreet, we're at work every business day checking the accuracy and
completeness of our information. The knowledge we derive from our database can
give you the high quality solutions you need — faster and fresher than any
other source. We have the industry expertise, quality business information and
expert technology to help you improve operating efficiencies and increase
profitability.
Industry Experience. To respond to your information needs, we have
invested over 150 years creating the world's largest
and most comprehensive source of business related information. Hundreds of
millions of pieces of data, ranging from trade styles to trade experiences to
financial statements, are integrated every day into one file through the use of
our unique numbering system, the D&B D-U-N-S®
Number.
A Global Business Standard. The D&B D-U-N-S Number can be used to
help you streamline your transactions, eliminate duplicate files and most
importantly, integrate your data with D&B data and information from other
sources. It's recognized as a global business standard by the world's most
influential standards-setting organizations (ANSI, UN/EDIFACT, ISO) and by more
than 50 global industry and trade associations, as well as the U.S. Federal
Government. Click here to see averages: more than 11
million business records are updated on an annual basis.
"With regard to both quality and products, I am very pleased with the evolution
that has occurred at D&B. Not only has there been a customization of the
product line, there has been a continuous improvement in the quality of
information that's offered."
Bill Balduino,Director of Credit, Union Camp
Expert Technology. Find out which impartial third-party
business and government sources are D&B's foundation for gathering
business information for our files. These sources are supplemented with the
information we obtain annually through millions of on-site and telephone
contacts with business owners and managers. Just a few of the sources we use
include:
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All federal bankruptcy filing locations
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All U.S. secretaries of state
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Millions of trade and bank experiences
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Public utilities
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The U.S. Postal Service
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Over 2,500 state filing locations
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Daily newspapers, publications and electronic news services
In all, we can have up to 1,500 data elements on any given company, which means
you get a more accurate and complete picture of a business. For a better
picture, take a look at D&B's Information file
At-A-Glance.
We are also the only global information provider
that collects financial statements on both publicly and privately held
companies. Our in-depth interview process and the use of the D&B D-U-N-S
Number enables us to give you records linked together to form a corporate
family. This means you can identify and group entities within an organization
quickly and effectively — even with our most complex corporate
family tree, which contains fourteen levels of parents, subsidiaries
and branch locations. More than 58 million companies — representing more than
200 countries.
Going the extra mile. Before reaching you, information collected must
first pass quality checks. Our customized data entry system alone contains over
2,000 information validations. These checks are then supplemented by mainframe
data cleansing processes, such as our Duplicate Report Protection System and
Address Standardization. We then go even further to help improve the
accuracy of the information provided, by randomly calling companies and
reviewing the information we have compiled on their businesses. If, for any
reason, you should question the information received, a group of dedicated
consultants are available to reinvestigate the information at no charge.
Dun & Bradstreet goes the extra mile by providing business deterioration and
higher risk alerts to you to help you prevent unnecessary losses. Working with
our trained nationwide consultants, our customers and law enforcement agencies,
we investigate any business suspected of engaging in severe risk activities.
Over the last four years, customers have reported more than $170,000,000 in
loss savings due to the notifications received from D&B.
Quality Information. Turning information into knowledge for the changing
world of business.
We are committed to:
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Responding to your questions and offering solutions
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Investigating business information and following up with you at your request
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Acting on new information to ensure that our information base is as accurate
and current as possible
If you would like additional information or to trial our services, please
contact us at 1.800.234.3867 (US) or 1.800.463.6362 (Canada).
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