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File Description [top]

D&B WorldBase^® - Canada, File 520, is a Canadian company directory with family affiliations, executives and basic financial information for over 3 million companies.

File 520 has been expanded to include more companies and enhanced. A Record Type field is now available enabling precision retrieval of records of interest. Record types of Marketable or Non Marketable, Active or Inactive, and Linked or Non Linked are searchable as SF= and can be displayed with tags SF or RT. While online, enter Help News520 for details of the record types.

The file name has been changed to D&B WorldBase^® - Canada, from D&B - Canadian Dun's Market Identifiers^®, to better reflect the content from D&B. The database is developed from interviews conducted by D&B's staff of business analysts located around the world, as well as government sources, large volume mailings, and third-party sources.

Tips [top]

Subject Coverage [top]

• Public Canadian companies
• Private Canadian companies
• Government-run Canadian companies

Establishments of all sizes and in all industries are included.

Print Counterparts [top]

• None

Dialog File Data [top]

Database Content [top]

• Directories

Document Types Indexed [top]

• NA

Geographic Coverage [top]

• International

Special Features [top]

• ERA Available
• Graduate Education Program
• Remove Duplicates (RD, ID) Available
• REPORT Available
• MAP Available

DialIndex/OneSearch Categories [top]

Contact [top]

Terms and Conditions [top]

D&B WorldBase^® - Canada: Access to and use of the Dun & Bradstreet database is subject to the Terms of Agreement between you and the company, partnership, or entity with which you are associated (hereinafter "Company") and Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. ("D&B"). By accessing a D&B database, you agree that you have authority to enter the Terms of Agreement on behalf of your Company and that you have read the terms of Agreement, understand them and agree on behalf of your Company to be bound by them. (See Dialog's Information Provider Terms and Conditions for the above-mentioned Terms of Agreement.)

SAMPLE RECORD [top]

BASIC INDEX [top]

¹ Searchable in the Basic Index and in the Additional Indexes.

ADDITIONAL INDEXES [top]

² Numeric entries are indexed as whole numbers, rounded down to the 2 left-most digits. Negative numbers are preceded by a minus sign. Use numeric operators (<, >, >=, <=, etc.) to search a range of values; e.g., S SA>=1M for records with sales in $US of 1 million or higher. To eliminate records with no data available, S S4 NOT SA=NA.

³ The complete telephone number is displayed.

⁴ EXPAND SF= for a full list. SF= contains org. type, trade status, and record status. Record Types Marketable or Non Marketable, Active or Inactive, Linked or Non Linked are searchable using SF= and display using SF or RT display tags.

⁵ Present in Linked records only, e.g., S SF=LINKED

LIMIT [top]

SORT [top]

RANK [top]

MAP [top]

REPORT OPTIONS [top]

USER-DEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

PREDEFINED FORMAT OPTIONS [top]

DIRECT RECORD ACCESS [top]

Rates [top]

Rates For File: D&B WorldBase® - Canada[520]
Cost per DialUnit:                 $8.43
Cost per minute:                   $2.40
Report Elements                    $0.35
Rank Elements                      $0.00

Format    Types   Prints
     1    $0.00    $0.00
     2    $5.50    $5.50
     3    $3.00    $3.00
     4    $2.00    $2.00
     5    $5.50    $5.50
     6    $1.25    $1.25
     8    $1.50    $1.50
     9    $5.50    $5.50
    10    $1.50    $1.50
    20    $1.50    $1.50
    27    $0.00    $0.00
    30    $1.50    $1.50
    40    $1.50    $1.50
    66    $1.50    $1.50
KWIC95    $0.00       NA
KWIC96    $0.00       NA

REDIST/COPY Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
        1-2       1.00
       3-25       1.50
     26-100       3.00
    101-200       4.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00

ARCHIVE Multiplier Table:

      Range      Multiplier
       1-25       1.50
     26-200       3.00
    201-500       6.00
   501-1000       8.00
 1001 or more    10.00