The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation · Short Hills, NJ United States ·(NYSE: DNB)

For The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, there's no business like "know" business. The company, known as D&B, is one of the world's leading suppliers of business information, services, and research. Its database contains statistics on more than 140 million companies in more than 200 countries, including the largest volume of business-credit information in the world. The company's risk management segment sells that information and integrates it into software products and Web-based applications. D&B also offers marketing information and purchasing-support services. The company has broadened its client base with its online offerings; it acquired Hoover's, the publisher of this profile, in 2003. To read the full description, subscribe now.