Companies protest over D&B failure scores

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Two companies have berated ratings agency Dun & Bradstreet after their failure scores were incorrectly calculated.

Carter Thermal Industries group financial director John Scott wrote to PP saying he was "alarmed" D&B had publicly stated his company had a higher than average risk of failing based on a county cou...

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