Our Database

If you're not in the business of managing data, how do you ensure the information you have is accurate, complete and timely? Businesses change so quickly today, but with 167 years of experience collecting and enhancing data, you can be sure that D&B will provide you with the information you need to make business decisions with confidence. D&B is committed to an aggressive multi-year strategy to continually improve the quality and size of our database of global business information.
In Canada:

• You have access to information on approximately one and a half million Canadian businesses.
• In 2007, more than 25,051 verified businesses were added to the Canadian database.
  
• 79.3% of the companies in the Canadian database are small businesses with fewer than 20 employees.
• Currently 18% of records are linked helping you uncover who owns whom to better understand your suppliers and customers for risk and opportunity.
• 90% of our database have CCS (commercial credit score ) and FSS (financial stress score) scores

Globally:

• You can now access information on more than 140 million businesses around the world. D&B is the only worldwide information network to surpass 105 million businesses.
• D&B is on the leading edge of gathering information in emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India and China.
• D&B invests $250 million annually — and has done so for the last six years — to ensure we continually grow and enhance the quality of D&B's database.

D&B has a patent-pending process for collecting and enhancing data into quality information: D&B's DUNSRight® Data Quality Process.