Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), with the world's largest business information database, tracks more than 50 million companies worldwide, 11 million in the United States alone. Businesses use D&B's services to find new customers and evaluate their creditworthiness, identify potential suppliers, and collect overdue receivables.
Through face-to-face and telephone interviews and public-records searches, more than 200 million financial transactions are added annually to D&B's files in the United States. D&B updates its information base continually--more than 750,000 times each business day.
When businesses are entered into the D&B database, they are issued D-U-N-S numbers (similar to Social Security numbers for companies). The U.S. federal government requires companies to have this number to bid for government contracts. Also used by the United Nations and the European Union, the D&B D-U-N-S number is quickly becoming the universal standard for identifying businesses on the World Wide Web as well.
For more information about D&B, call (800) 234-3867 or visit the D&B Web site at http://www.dnb.com To register for a D-U-N-S number, call (800) 333-0505.
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Harris Technology, (713) 461-3220, sales@harris-tech.com
Information Systems Guide, http://mis.miningco.com, rfinney@itmweb.com
Jane Wesman Public Relations, 928 Broadway, #903, New York, NY 10010, (212) 598-4440
Smoke Busters of Texas Inc., P.O. Box 953, Cedar Park, TX 78630, (512) 335-5858
This article was originally published in the November 1998 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: Power Surge.
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