Find Members of a Corporate Family and Identify Its Headquarters?
TOPIC: In this
example we are looking for companies in General
Motors' Corporate family, as well as the ultimate
headquarters for the company. We will perform
the search in D&B—Dun's Market Identifiers® (File
516).
D&B—Dun's Market Identifiers (File 516) provides indexing that allows you to link parent companies with their subsidiaries, divisions, manufacturing facilities and branches. The key lies in understanding the D-U-N-S Number system.
DN= (Company D-U-N-S) Retrieves that particular location.
DH= (Headquarters D-U-N-S) Retrieves all the branches of the headquarters location.
DP= (Parent D-U-N-S) Retrieves all subsidiary locations reporting to that parent.
DC= (Ultimate D-U-N-S) May be used only with the Corporate Family D-U-N-S Number and retrieves all corporate family members, including the top location.
COMMAND SUMMARY
BEGIN 516
SELECT TERM(W)TERM/CO AND SF=ULTIMATE
TYPE S1/3/1
SELECT DC=NN-NNN-NNNN
TYPE S2/3/1
Note: For global corporate affiliations see D&B Worldbase® – Who Owns Whom (File 522).
HOW TO...
1. BEGIN 516 to obtain U.S. company information.
2. SELECT the company name using the adjacency operator (W) between the first and second terms in the company name. Restrict the search to the Company Name (/CO) field. Combine the company name with the statement SF=ULTIMATE. |
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3. TYPE a record in Format 3. Format 3 shows the D-U-N-S Corporate Family number (DC).
Enter HELP FMT 516 for available predefined formats.
Enter HELP RATES 516 to check format charges. |
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4. Find the corporate family members by searching DC=nn-nnn-nnnn that you found in the record above. Typing out all records will provide information on all corporate family members. |
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