Stratrix
On the Record · DUN & Bradstreet

DUN & Bradstreet acquisitions, on the record

The businesses DUN & Bradstreet bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

BusinessDealWhenValue
Australia and New Zealand ("ANZ") business
Word for word“In June 2015, we divested our business in Australia and New Zealand ("ANZ") for $169.8 million , which was part of our Non-Americas segment.” 10-K for 2015
divestitureJune 2015$169.8 million
Avention, Inc.
Word for word“In January 2017, we acquired Avention, Inc., which we believe will help us evolve Hoover’s and our traditional prospecting solutions into Sales Acceleration products.” 10-K for 2016
acquisitionIn January 2017—
Latin America operations
Word for word“Americas, which currently consists of our operations in the United States (“U.S.”), Canada, and our Latin America Worldwide Network (we divested our Latin America operations in September 2016); and” 10-K for 2016
divestitureIn September 2016—
Benelux operations (the Netherlands and Belgium)
Word for word“(we divested our operations in both the Netherlands and Belgium in November 2016 and our Australian operations in June 2015).” 10-K for 2016
divestitureIn November 2016—
NetProspex, Inc.
Word for word“We acquired a 100% equity interest in DBCC during the second quarter of 2015 and a 100% equity interest in NetProspex during the first quarter of 2015.” 10-K for 2016
acquisitionDuring the first quarter of 2015—
Australia and New Zealand operations (ANZ)
Word for word“In June 2015, we divested our operations in Australia and New Zealand (“ANZ”) for $169.8 million , which was part of our Non-Americas segment.” 10-K for 2017
divestitureJune 2015$169.8 million
As filedReported in the company's financial data (XBRL), each linked to its filing
Fiscal year endedCash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired)Goodwill from acquisitions
2016-12-31$0$0
2017-12-31$150 million$116.7 million

Deal filings since 2016

Read from DUN & Bradstreet’s annual reports (10-K for 2017, 10-K for 2016, 10-K for 2015) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2018-02-22. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.