D&B (NYSE:DNB) is the world's leading source of business information and insight, enabling companies to Decide with Confidence for 165 years. D&B's global commercial database contains more than 100 million business records. The database is enhanced by our proprietary DUNSRight™ Quality Process, which transforms the enormous amount of data we collect daily into decision-ready insight. Through the D&B Worldwide Network - an unrivaled alliance of D&B and leading business information providers around the world - customers gain access to the world's largest and highest quality global commercial business information database.

D&B partners with many of the world's largest and most successful enterprises as well as mid-size companies and entrepreneurial start-ups. Customers use our Risk Management Solutions to mitigate credit risk, increase cash flow and drive increased profitability; our Sales & Marketing Solutions to increase revenue from new and existing customers; our E-Business Solutions to convert prospects into clients faster by enabling business professionals to research companies, executives and industries; and our Supply Management Solutions to generate ongoing savings through supplier consolidation and to protect their businesses from supply chain disruption and serious financial, operational and regulatory risk.

D&B is the leading provider of business information for risk management, sales and marketing and supply management decisions worldwide. Companies rely on D&B to provide the insight they need to help build profitable, quality business relationships with their customers, suppliers and business partners.

The D&B brand has stood for high quality business information for 165 years. Our database covers over 100 million businesses globally with a daily update of more than 1.5 million times. Using our DUNSRight™ Process, we collect, aggregate, edit, and verify data from thousands of sources daily. The foundation of DUNSRight™ is quality assurance which includes over 2, 000 separate automated checks plus many manual ones to ensure that our data meets our high quality standards. In addition, five quality drivers - Global Data Collection, Entity Matching, D-U-N-S? Number, Corporate Linkage, and Predicative Indicators - work sequentially to collect and enhance the data. The output of this extensive process is high-quality business insight that our customers rely on to Decide with Confidence.

D&B's products and services are drawn from a global database of over 100 million companies. We gather business information in 214 countries around the world, in 95 languages or dialects, covering 181 currencies. To help ensure the accuracy, completeness, timeliness and cross-border consistency of our information, we use sophisticated data collection tools and update our database nearly 1.5 million times a day.

Our exclusive nine-digit D&B D-U-N-S Number, assigned to each business location in our global database, is widely used as a tool for identifying, organizing and consolidating information about businesses. Companies worldwide use it to link information about suppliers, customers and trading partners, providing them a more complete picture of risks and opportunities in their business relationships.

D&B established a presence in 1994 to focus on providing the vast and growing Chinese business community with solutions in Risk Management, Marketing, and Business Education that matches international business standards and practices. D&B's presence in China includes our headquarters in Shanghai and branch office in Beijing and Guangzhou. Over the past 12 years, D&B China has provided information solutions to Foreign Invested Enterprises, Listed Companies, Import & Export Trading companies, and Private Enterprises throughout the country. We maintain and update a China business database of 1,300,000 Chinese companies.

With the introduction of D&B China Risk Index, an advanced risk management tool - RAM, D&B China has positioned itself not only as a leading business information provider, but also a consultative business partner bringing the trust, expertise, insight and tools to help businesses make more confident business decisions that map against the vast opportunities as China opens to global trading opportunities.

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