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Facts On County
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., in ternational bushiess information agency ncm marking its 125th year, hisreleased latest statistics on the business popu lation of Rappahannock county.
Mr. G. L. McCann, district manager of the Baltimore offigures
obtained by a physical count of the Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book for January, 1966, show there are 42 retailers, wholesalers, and manufacturers locally, as com pared with 39 a year ago. Founded in 1841 infjpwYork City, the Dun & Bradstreet organization now includes nearly 240 offices in the U. S. and abroad. The company was originally established to collect and report data on merchants on the western fron tier in order to promote trade and has been gathering financial and credit data on firms of all types ever since. Today, D&B lists nearly three million businesses and their cCirrent credit ratings in its Reference Book, which is continually being revised and is published six times a year. Each year, all businesses, regardless of size, are asked to send copies of their financial statements to Dun & Bradstreet, whose reporters collect supplementary facts and profile each business in comprehensive credit reports widely used by suppliers, insurance companies, bankers, and service concerns.
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