Bureau van Dijk
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| Privately Held | |
| Industry | Business Intelligence/ company information |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Founder | Bernard Van Ommeslaghe |
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Number of locations
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30+ |
| Products | A range of products including Orbis, Fame, Mint, Compliance Catalyst, Credit Catalyst, Procurement Catalyst, TP Catalyst |
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Number of employees
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approx. 700 |
| Parent | EQT |
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Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing is a major publisher of business information, and specialises in private company data combined with software for searching and analysing companies. It is owned by a Swedish private equity group EQT and its senior management.
Bureau van Dijk's product range combines data from regulatory and other sources, including 140 information partners, with software to allow users to manipulate data for a range of research needs and applications. Unlike other providers of content, Bureau van Dijk reveals their sources and shows the source data – allowing users to create their own analytics and predictive analysis based on underlying primary data and reporting.
The majority of staff focus on sales, marketing and customer support in offices in: Amsterdam, Beijing, Bratislava, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Manchester, Mexico City, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Vienna, Washington D.C. and Zurich.
Bureau van Dijk's research team collects both global M&A data and intelligence around corporate ownership structures, and is based in Manchester, Brussels and Singapore. It also have a team of journalists writing news stories on deals and rumours.
Product management and software development are based in the Geneva and Brussels offices.
The company has over 5,000 clients including banks, insurance companies, financial and consulting organisations, governments and research institutes.
The origin of Bureau van Dijk dates back to 1970s. Belgian businessman Marcel van Dijk established a company specialising in documentary and information systems, named "Bureau Marcel van Dijk". In 1972, its activities were further deployed in the two companies established in Paris and Brussels.
In 1985, on the retirement of Marcel van Dijk, Professor Bernard van Ommeslaghe and Alain Liedts took over the company and extended its operations to include management consulting, auditing and IT support. In 1987, Bureau van Dijk took the pioneering role in Europe by launching a new activity: the design and dissemination on CD-ROM (the precursor to Bureau van Dijk's online databases) of economic and financial databases with information on companies.
In 1991, a second company, "Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing", was formed to assume responsibility for updating and expanding these databases, while the consulting division remained grouped within the company Bureau van Dijk Ingénieurs Conseils. The owners of Bureau van Dijk were private individuals who were also members of the management and board, and the company has since been sold.
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