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Show New County Directory Lists 6003 Businesses for Year 1960 Statistics released this week by D. E. Smith, district manager of the Salt Lake office of Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., reflect the trend of the business population in Salt Lake County during the past year. Figures obtained from a physical count of the Dun & Bradstreet reference book for January, 1961, totaled 6003 manufacturers, man-ufacturers, wholeaslers and retailers re-tailers in this area as compared to 5750 two years ago. The Dun & Bradstreet Reference Refer-ence Book lists all manufacturers, manufactur-ers, wholesalers, and retailers who seek or grant commercial credit. It does not include some of the service and professional businesses such as beauty and barber shops, security dealers, and real estate brokers. Therefore, There-fore, the figures for businesses in Salt Lake County would be higher than the 6003 quoted. The Dun & Bradstreet Reference Refer-ence Book, which is the world's largest regularly published volume, vol-ume, is revised every 60 days to (Continued on page 8) New Count Director Lists 6003 Businesses for Year 1960 (Continued from page 1) keep the business listings current. cur-rent. During the past 60 days, nearly 70,000 new names were added to the book and almost 65,000 were removed. During the period, the credit ratings were changed on more than 110,000 business enterprises. As one phase in revising credit reports and keeping them up to date, Dun & Bradstreet, Inc. through its national network of offices, writes every year to all businesses in the book to request their financial statements. This year these requests are being sent to approximately 3,000,000 businesses, to the corner grocery store worth a few thousand dollars dol-lars as well as to businesses worth millions. When the owner or officer of a business enterprise, or his accountant ac-countant fills out and mails his financial statement it becomes a part of the credit report on his business and a factor in determining deter-mining the credit rating of his business. Each reference book listing is a condensed summary of the information in-formation contained in the Dun & Bradstreet credit report. The report includes a history of the business; a description of what the busines does and how it does it; a financial section which includes in-cludes the latest financial statement; state-ment; and a record of how the business pays its bills. Credit reports are primarily used by businessmen who want to evaluate the credit risk of a business before shipping or selling. sell-ing. I Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., has been reporting on the American business since 1841 without cost of any kind to the business it reports on or lists in its reference refer-ence book. |