Dun & Bradstreet, back in the days known as The Mercantile Agency in New York, opened its doors on 20 July 1841 and started a business information revolution. From December 2016, Dun & Bradstreet Benelux was transferred to the Altares Group. The company is now known as Altares Benelux.

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A global, cloud-based solution for risk management to support business growth based on reliable facts. Ratings, scores and risk analytics from world’s biggest commercial database help professionals making the right decisions.
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Altares acquires the Benelux region of Dun & Bradstreet, which now becomes Altares Dun & Bradstreet Benelux: a local partner of Dun & Bradstreet’s worldwide network. Dun & Bradstreet believes in the power of local partners to quickly anticipate developments and ensure the highest data quality.
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A specialist in online B2B-information, Manageo helps growing the turnover of Altares by optimizing their data and online marketing strategy.
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DNBi is a web based platform that transforms the efficiency of credit management. Powerful, but flexible. DNBi can easily be adjusted to the way customers work. Users have access to Dun & Bradstreet’s global database for all insights they need.
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The acquisition of iMarket Inc., well-known for its award-winning CD-rom products with marketing data, strengthens Dun & Bradstreet’s ability to provide marketing solutions to small and medium-sized businesses. In addition, iMarket’s data resources improve Dun & Bradstreet’s own world-class database.
“iMarket’s internet and desktop solutions will help us capture our opportunities for small businesses by expanding our offerings to small and medium-sized customers. Dun & Bradstreet also plans to use the zapdata.com tool (now Hoovers) to further migrate our activities to the web,” according to Aldus Allan Loren, Dun & Bradstreet Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President.
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Nielsen’s unrivalled status as a leader in marketing research attracted the attention of Dun & Bradstreet Corporation. Arthur C. Nielsen Jr. eventually sold A.C. Nielsen for $1.3 billion.
The two companies had actually been considering such a merger for over 15 years, as Nielsen and Harrington Drake, president and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet, told the New York Times. “We both have the ability to collect a lot of data and deliver it efficiently to customers,” explains Nielsen. “I’m sure Nielsen will use both our technology and our databases,” added Drake.
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The merger was led by Arthur Whiteside, CEO of R.G. Duns & Co. Thanks to his excellent diplomatic skills, Whiteside was able to make a deal with the company’s biggest competitor. While previously both companies sold “products”, Whiteside began to place increasing emphasis on service, leading D&B out of the depression and information age with great leadership.
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Some of those correspondents later even became Presidents of America: Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Grover Cleveland and William McKinley.
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