D&B IS THE INFORMATION IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Providing sales and market reports and studies to the order or specification of others; providing general business information concerning sales, size and position; providing business information services pertaining to marketing, demographics and statistical fields; assigning and supplying identification numbers for use by business enterprises for the purpose of facilitating the automation of the payment of accounts payable and other business purposes and the obtaining of business statistics and information; supplying sale and marketing information concerning the business community according to the requirement of customers, mailing lists preparation services; computerized marketing consulting services rendered to businesses, namely, providing information that identifies corporate lines of business and relationships between national and international companies, providing demographic information on different businesses in specific geographic areas, gathering and dissemination of advertising matter of others, preparation of lists of companies for others; providing business information by means of telephonic prerecorded messages; evaluation of suppliers of goods and services with regard to overall financial, operational and risk level

Providing information on credit and collections of businesses; collection agency services; providing credit recovery and collection services; furnishing credit rating reports; financial reports, namely, collecting and reporting credit, financial and credit and financial analysis; financial research; providing credit rating and financial reporting and analysis; conducting a charitable funds matching program; providing financial credit history information services; providing information regarding investment ratings, namely, computerized credit information services; debt collection services; providing credit reports and credit rating information by means of telephonic pre-recorded messages; credit risk analysis