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March 28, 2011
Dear Shareholder:
In connection with the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation to be held on May 3, 2011, our Proxy Statement was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and first mailed to shareholders, on March 23, 2011.
Enclosed please find an amendment to our Proxy Statement which we filed with the SEC on March 28, 2011, which corrects two typographical errors appearing in the “Pay for Performance Analyses (2007-2009)” chart which is included in the “External Benchmarking – Benchmarking Process” section of the Proxy Statement. The amendment contains a description of the errors as well as a corrected chart.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey S. Hurwitz
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
103 JFK Parkway, Short Hills, NJ 07078
T 973.921.5500 www.dnb.com
THE DUN & BRADSTREET CORPORATION
AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO
PROXY STATEMENT FOR ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
TO BE HELD MAY 3, 2011
This document is an amendment to our Proxy Statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and first mailed to shareholders on March 23, 2011 in connection with the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at 8:00 a.m. at The Hilton Short Hills, 41 JFK Parkway, Short Hills, New Jersey.
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Due to a typographical error, two items in the “Pay for Performance Analyses (2007-2009)” chart which is included in the “External Benchmarking – Benchmarking Process” section of the Proxy Statement, were erroneously reported. Specifically, the chart filed (i) listed with respect to the “Size” category, D&B’s Market Cap in the 2nd Quartile, rather than the 3rd Quartile, and (ii) with respect to the “Performance - Growth” category, listed “D&B Sales 1-yr” performance in both the 3rd and 4th Quartiles, rather than only in the 3rd Quartile; D&B did have sales performance in the 4th Quartile for a three year period (i.e., “D&B Sales 3-yr”), as noted in the corrected chart below. For reference, the 4th Quartile is the highest quartile (at or above the 75th percentile); the 3rd Quartile is the next highest (between the 50th and 75th percentiles); followed by the 2nd Quartile (between the 25th and 50th percentiles); and 1st Quartile is the lowest (at or below the 25th percentile). All other information in the chart as filed was correct. In addition, the textual references and descriptions below the chart were correct.
The corrected chart is set forth below in its entirety.
