The worldwide industry leader Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) is the leading provider of business-to-business credit, marketing, purchasing, and receivables management and decision-support services worldwide. Customers rely upon D&B to provide the insight they need to build profitable, quality business relationships with their customers, suppliers, business partners - the companies they interact with every day.  Our access systems and value-added solutions make it easy for customers to select the information they need, and use it with their technologies of choice to run their businesses effectively.  We also are helping companies manage their supply chain more effectively and profitably with information, guidance and support that can facilitate effective, profitable relationships with suppliers and customers.  In the business-to-business marketplace, Dun & Bradstreet is the indispensable source of content, information-management expertise and business insight that customers need to make more informed decisions and build profitable relationships.  To learn about our comprehensive database, which now covers more than 50 million businesses in over 200 countries, and D&B's commitment to quality, read on.  We help customers make more profitable decisions Dun & Bradstreet is recognized around the world as the leader in providing global business expertise and information to customers. D&B helps customers interpret and utilize D&B's information and its own data, making D&B the preferred source for business expertise.  The promise is quality . . . the outcome is insight At Dun & Bradstreet, we're at work every business day checking the accuracy and completeness of our information. The knowledge we derive from our database can give you the high quality solutions you need — faster and fresher than any other source. We have the industry expertise, quality business information and expert technology to help you improve operating efficiencies and increase profitability.   Industry experience To respond to your information needs, we have invested over 150 years creating the world's largest and most comprehensive source of business related information. Hundreds of millions of pieces of data, ranging from trade styles to trade experiences to financial statements, are integrated every day into one file through the use of our unique numbering system, the D&B D-U-N-SŪ Number.  A global business standard The D&B D-U-N-S Number can be used to help you streamline your transactions, eliminate duplicate files and most importantly, integrate your data with D&B data and information from other sources. It's recognized as a global business standard by the world's most influential standards-setting organizations (ANSI, UN/EDIFACT, ISO) and by more than 50 global industry and trade associations, as well as the U.S. Federal Government. Click here to see averages: more than 11 million business records are updated on an annual basis.