mercantile agency

The mercantile agency in the United States is a much more comprehensive organization.

In the 1920s, the organization changed its name to the National Association of Mercantile Agencies.

He joined the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company as its colonial accountant.

His 90,000 acre lease lasted until the early 1890s, when the NZ Loan and Mercantile Agency took it on.

On his sixteenth birthday, he ventured into other areas of commerce, and ultimately started The Mercantile Agency in 1841 in New York City.

Twice a year, correspondents would send their reports to Mr. Tappan's office in New York, then called the Mercantile Agency.

The Mercantile Agency was the precursor to Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) and modern credit-reporting services.

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company - formerly of No. 1, Victoria-street, Mansion House, London.

Guide to Australian Business Records - New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co (1865 - 1961)

Dalgety & Co Ltd merged with the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co.

In the 1840s, they founded another lucrative business enterprise when they opened the first commercial credit-rating service, the The Mercantile Agency, a predecessor of Dun and Bradstreet.

It was built in 1951 by Reinhard, Hofmeister & Walquist for the mercantile agency of Dun & Bradstreet.

July 20 - The Mercantile Agency (ancestor of Dun & Bradstreet is founded in New York City by Lewis Tappan.

In 1933, The Mercantile Agency merged with competitor R.G. Dun & Company to form today's Dun & Bradstreet.

He was a director of the Bank of New Zealand, the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, and the New Zealand Insurance Company.

The Havemeyer Sugar Refining Company brought a lawsuit against them claiming they were induced to making a loan based on false financial statements made to Bradstreet's Mercantile Agency by Taussig in April 1883.

Taylor died less than a year later, and his widow, Ellen Taylor, sold the house and most of its contents to Marshall D. Wilber, treasurer of the Wilber Mercantile Agency, in November 1912.

Lewis Tappan (1788-1873), founder of the Journal of Commerce (1828) and a prominent anti-slavery leader, undertook the work, and established in New York, in 1841, the Mercantile Agency, the first organization of its kind.

The Rockefellers, in turn, kept the idea of a New York-based global mercantile agency alive after World War II and ultimately helped make it a reality, although the project metamorphosed into a giant real estate speculation with little direct bearing on international commerce.