D&B
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| Public | |
| Traded as | |
| Industry | Commercial & professional services |
| Founded | New York City, New York 1841 |
| Headquarters | Short Hills, New Jersey, U.S. |
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Key people
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Robert Carrigan (Chairman & CEO) |
| Products | Business information, credit and risk, sales and marketing, data analytics, supply and compliance |
| Revenue |
 US$1.7 billion (2016) |
 359.2 million (2016) |
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US$97.4 million (2016) |
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| Total assets |
US$2.2 billion (2016) |
| Total equity |
US$-1.0 billion (2016) |
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Number of employees
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4,800 (2016) |
| Website | www.dnb.com |
Robert Carrigan (Chairman & CEO)
Rishi Dave (Chief Marketing Offer)
Joshua Perez (President & Chief Operating Officer)
Richard Veldran (Chief Financial Officer)
Christie Hill (Chief Legal Officer)
Curtis Brown (Chief Content & Technology Officer)
Roslyn Williams (Chief People Officer)
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. (: DNB) is a company that provides commercial data, analytics and insights for business, headquartered in Short Hills, a community in Millburn, New Jersey, US. It offers a wide range of products, and services for risk and finance, operations and supply, and sales and marketing professionals, as well as research and insights on global business issues, serving customers in government and industries such as communications, technology, strategic financial services, and retail/telecommunications/manufacturing markets. Often referred to as D&B, the company’s database contains more than 265 million business records worldwide.
Dun & Bradstreet traces its history back to July 20, 1841, with the formation of The Mercantile Agency in New York City by Lewis Tappan, later called R.G. Dun & Company. Recognizing the need for a centralized credit reporting system, Tappan formed the company to create a network of correspondents who would provide reliable, objective credit information to subscribers. As an advocate for civil rights, Tappan used his abolitionist connections to expand and update the company’s credit information. In spite of accusations for invading personal privacy, by 1844 the Mercantile Agency had over 280 clients. The agency continued to expand allowing offices to open in Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. By 1849, Tappan retired, allowing Benjamin Douglass to take over the booming business.
In 1859, Douglass transferred the company over to Robert Graham Dun, who immediately changed the firm’s name to R.G. Dun & Company. Over the next 40 years, Graham Dun continued to expand the business across international boundaries.
In 1933, Dun merged with competitor, John M. Bradstreet to form today's Dun & Bradstreet. The merger was engineered by Dun's CEO Arthur Whiteside. Whiteside's successor, J. Wilson Newman, worked to increase Dun's range of products and services and expanded dramatically during the 1960s by engineering ways to apply new technologies to evolving operations. The Dun & Bradstreet Data Universal Numbering System (D&B D-U-N-S® Number) was invented in 1963. In 1996 the company tri-vested creating three entities D&B Companies, Nielsen and the Cognizant Corporation.Cognizant Corporation included Nielsen TV Ratings, Gartner Group, Clarke-O'Neill, Erisco and several other lesser known entities. In 1999, Cognizant Corporation spun off Nielsen TV Ratings and shortly thereafter divested all its holdings emerging as IMS Health. IMS Health continued to hold its prize incubator company that is today known as Cognizant Corporation. Moody's, a credit reporting agency, was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in 1962. In 1986, Dun & Bradstreet acquired the education data company Market Data Retrieval (MDR).
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