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Show Dun & Bradstreet Releases Statistics Showing Trends Statistics released today by D. E. Smith, District Manager of the Salt Lake City office of Dun and Bradstreet, Inc., reflect the trend of listed business firms in Utah County during- the past five yeajrs. Figures obtained from a physical count of Dun & Bradstreet Brad-street Reference Book for Jan. 1959, totaled 1288 manufacturers, manufactur-ers, wholesalers and retailers in this area as compared to 1210 in January, 1955 an increase of 6 per cent for the period. The Reference Book, incidentally, incident-ally, lists only manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. It does not include same of the service and professional businesses such as beauty and barber shops and stock and real estate brokers. Thus, the figures for businesses an Utah County would be actually higher than the 1288 quoted a-bone. a-bone. The Reference Book contains approximately three- million business bus-iness listings for over 50,000 communities in the United States It is published every sixty days to keep listings current. During the past sixty days, nearly 70,000 new names were added and nearly near-ly 65,000 names were removed. Credit ratings were Changed during dur-ing this period on more, than 110,000 business concerns. Using the Dun and Bradstreet Reference Book listings as a guide, it is interesting to 'review 're-view what has happened in the eight principal Utah County communities during- the past five years. Pleasant Grove listings rose from 60 in 155 to 63 in 1959, a 5 per cent increase. Lehi, 61 down to 58, a 5 per cent decrease. Ajnerican Fork, 119 down to 102, a 14 per cent decrease. Orem, 122 to 103, a 31 per cent increase. Payson, 90 to 85, a 14 per cent decrease. Provo, 500 to 537, a 7 per cent increase. Spanish Fork, 131 to 120, an 8 per cent decrease. Springville, 98 to 128, a 31 per cent incroasei. |