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The Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. is an American company that provides commercial data, analytics, and insights for businesses. [3] Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, the company offers a wide range of products and services for risk and financial analysis, operations and supply, and sales and marketing professionals, as well as research and insights on global business issues.
The Data Universal Numbering System, abbreviated as DUNS or D-U-N-S, is a proprietary system developed and managed by Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) that assigns a unique numeric identifier, referred to as a "DUNS number" to a single business entity. It was introduced in 1963 to support D&B's credit reporting practice.
D&B Software (Dun & Bradstreet Software Services) was formed by the merger of the Management Science America and McCormack & Dodge companies in June 1990, under the ownership of the Dun & Bradstreet corporation. [1] In 1982, McCormack & Dodge was described by The New York Times as "one of the nation's top three financial software concerns." [2]
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Dun & Bradstreet, a U.S. data and analytics provider that has a market value of more than $9 billion including debt, is exploring options including a potential sale, people ...
An agreement between the government of Ghana and Kroll for the firm to retrieve assets and investigate wrongdoings by previous appointments was subject to two lawsuits in 2020, challenging the constitutionality of the agreement. [57] Both lawsuits were dropped in April 2021. [58]
[6] [7] The company then became a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet, [8] which bought Hoover's for $119 million in 2003. After the acquisition of Avention by Dun & Bradstreet in 2017, the D&B Hoovers solution [ buzzword ] was launched, and replaced the existing Hoovers' product.
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. v. Greenmoss Builders, Inc., 472 U.S. 749 (1985), was a Supreme Court case which held that a credit reporting agency could be liable in defamation if it carelessly relayed (i.e. published) false information that a business had declared bankruptcy when in fact it had not.
In 2010, Dun and Bradstreet, formed in 1841, spun off assets that merged with newly created Credibility Solutions to form Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp., an independent company focused on credit and credibility solutions for small businesses. The company grew from 8 employees to over 600 after becoming an independent entity in 2010.