You consent to Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) using this data for marketing and analytical purposes, and to D&B emailing you or using an autodialer or pre-recorded voice to text or call you at the number you provide with marketing or other offers. The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation is a company that provides commercial data, analytics, and insights for businesses. It is headquartered in Short Hills, a community in Millburn, New Jersey, U.S. The company 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.
Number of employees5,000 (2019)WebsiteFootnotes / referencesThe Dun & Bradstreet Corporation is a company that provides commercial data, analytics, and insights for businesses. It is headquartered in, a community in, U.S. The company 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 300 million business records worldwide. Contents.History 1800s Dun & Bradstreet traces its history back to July 20, 1841, with the formation of The Mercantile Agency in New York City by, 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.1900s 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 ( Number) was invented in 1963. In 1996 the company tri-vested creating three entities D&B Companies, and the. Included, 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., a credit reporting agency, was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in 1962.
In 1986, Dun & Bradstreet acquired the education data company Market Data Retrieval (MDR). 2000s During 2001, Dun & Bradstreet acquired the company Harris InfoSource International, Inc, a data company. In February 2003, the company acquired.On February 5, 2003, Dun & Bradstreet restated prior period results to correct timing errors in the recognition of some of the revenue associated with 14 of the Company's 200+ products, after a review of its revenue recognition from 1997 through 2002. In August 2010, Dun & Bradstreet spun off and sold their credit monitoring and management business to a newly formed company,.
In 2007, Dun & Bradstreet acquired and sold the company in 2012.In October 2013, became the CEO of Dun & Bradstreet.On January 5, 2015, Dun & Bradstreet acquired the data management firm NetProspex. In April 2015, Dun & Bradstreet acquired Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. And announced the formation of a new division, Dun & Bradstreet Emerging Business.
In January 2017, Dun & Bradstreet acquired Avention, the maker of OneSource solutions.On August 8, 2018, Dun & Bradstreet announced Thomas J. Manning, who has served as the company's interim CEO, as the new Chief Executive Officer, and that the company had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an investor group led by CC Capital, Cannae Holdings and Thomas H. Lee Partners.On February 8, 2019, Dun & Bradstreet completed its merger and became a privately held company. Its former ticker symbol, DNB, was retired. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
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