Operations
Dun & Bradstreet maintains a database of over 213 million companies globally and over 53 million professional contact names using a variety of sources including public records, trade references, telco providers, newspapers and publications, telephone interviews and others, often without the consent of the business owners or operators it lists. The company derives revenues through subscriptions as well as pay per business report, and to a smaller extent, third-party licensing agreements. Additional revenue is derived from subsidiaries including Hoovers and AllBusiness.com.
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“There is a patent office at the seat of government of the universe, whose managers are as much interested in the dispersion of seeds as anybody at Washington can be, and their operations are infinitely more extensive and regular.”
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