Shanghai, July 6, 2009 - D&B, the leading provider of commercial information and insight on businesses, announced today that it has acquired a majority stake in Roadway, China's leading database marketing company. The partnership between D&B and Roadway will capitalize on each other's strengths and capabilities to provide a one-stop service for Sales and Marketing Solution (S&MS) to customers in China.

Pursuant to this acquisition, Huaxia D&B China (HDBC), D&B's local joint venture, will merge its S&MS business into Roadway so that Roadway will become the specialized S&MS arm of HDBC in China, catering to customers' needs in the business and consumer database marketing space. Roadway will be renamed “Shanghai Roadway D&B Marketing Services Co., Limited” (“Roadway D&B”).

Dun & Bradstreet's Asia-Pacific President, David Emery said, "China is a fast-growing economy in the Asia-Pacific region and is a crucial component in our global growth plan. We, therefore, are very pleased to have Roadway, China's leading direct marketing solutions provider, join the D&B's worldwide network. Roadway not only possesses tremendous growth potential but it also fits perfectly into our plan to provide S&MS customers with a one-stop solution in China by completing our current S&MS value chain. We are confident that Roadway D&B will be a great success!”

Yuan Jiang, CEO of Roadway also expressed the same aspiration, "As China's largest database marketing company, Roadway has 8 years of experience，strong marketing and sales capabilities, and an extensive database consisting of 8 million enterprise data records and 80 million consumer data records. D&B's brand is renowned globally and we are very excited to be associated with this brand. The strategic partnership with D&B and HDBC will enrich our product line and allow us to provide improved customer experience in line with Roadway's mission to help our customers achieve good marketing results and to maintain a long-term win-win partnership with them."

This joint venture Roadway D&B - will be under the leadership of Mr. Yuan Jiang. With 10 years of database marketing experience, Mr. Yuan will synergize concept and development strategy with market development to enable Roadway D&B to play to its strengths in the database marketing field in China.