![]() In 1991, a second company, "Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing", was formed to assume responsibility for updating and expanding these databases, while the consulting division remained grouped within the company Bureau van Dijk Ingénieurs Conseils. In 1987, Bureau van Dijk took the pioneering role in Europe by launching a new activity: the design and dissemination on CD-ROM (the precursor to Bureau van Dijk's online databases) of economic and financial databases with information on companies. In 1985, on the retirement of Marcel van Dijk, Professor Bernard van Ommeslaghe and Alain Liedts took over the company and extended its operations to include management consulting, auditing and IT support. In 1972, its activities were further deployed in the two companies established in Paris and Brussels. ![]() Belgian businessman Marcel van Dijk established a company specialising in documentary and information systems, named "Bureau Marcel van Dijk". ![]() The origin of Bureau van Dijk dates back to the 1970s. The company regularly blogs content and white papers, offering free resources on compliance and other risk areas. The company brand statement is "The Business of Certainty". Bureau van Dijk claims to offer the most powerful comparable resource of information on private companies in the world. The company has over 5,000 clients including banks, insurance companies, financial and consulting organisations, governments and research institutes. Product management and software development are based in the Geneva and Brussels offices. It also has a team of journalists writing news stories on deals and market rumours. and Zurich.īureau van Dijk's research team collects both global M&A data and intelligence around corporate ownership structures, and is based in Manchester, Brussels and Singapore. The majority of staff focus on sales, marketing and customer support in offices in: Amsterdam, Beijing, Bratislava, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Manchester, Mexico City, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Vienna, Washington D.C. Unlike other providers of content, Bureau van Dijk reveals their sources and shows the source data – allowing users to create their own analytics and predictive analysis based on underlying primary data and reporting. Overview īureau van Dijk's product range combines data from regulatory and other sources, including 160 information providers, with software to allow users to manipulate data for a range of research needs and applications. On it was announced that Moody's entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Bureau van Dijk, which completed in August 2017. Orbis is Bureau van Dijk's flagship company database. This information is often not available, or difficult to find, on databases based on public companies and their listing on stock exchanges (e.g.Bureau van Dijk is a major publisher of business information, and specialises in private company data combined with software for searching and analysing companies. ![]() – BVD ID number ITRM0135156 – a formerly public quoted company that is now a controlled subsidiary of ALITALIA COMPAGNIA AEREA ITALIANA SPA.īecause Orbis is based on company registrations it can be used to browse a company hierarchy of shareholders/owners and subsidiaries. (Screenshot – Industry and overview, Full overview below) ALITALIA COMPAGNIA AEREA ITALIANA SPA – BvD ID number ITRM1225709 – a private company, Italy’s biggest airline that brought the trademark and some assets of the bankrupt Alitalia – Linee Aeree Italiane. ![]() Using Orbis, as we know it is not a UK company, we can search for companies with “alitalia” in their name. Is the italian airline Alitalia public or private? (A student query from last week) ( Fame all UK and Irish registered companies and Orbis the largest 250,000 companies worldwide on the University of Manchester subscription ) One of the strengths of these two databases is that they both cover public and private companies. Yesterday we had a presentation from our Bureau van Dijk representative on FAME and Orbis. ![]()
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