InfoGROUP
infoGROUP, formerly InfoUSA, is a company engaged in data processing, database management and email marketing.
Overview
InfoGROUP was founded in 1972 by Vinod Gupta. The headquarters is located in Omaha, NE, USA. The company employs over 5,000 people in 88 offices worldwide. The company was acquired by CCMP Capital Advisors in July 2010, which took the company private. Clare Hart is the current CEO.
InfoGROUP has 12 databases that have contact and credit information covering approximately 15 million businesses in the United States and Canada. The company licenses its data to third parties such as Yahoo!, AOL, Google, MSN, Ask, and Citysearch.
InfoGROUP’s Papillion, Nebraska, facility employs over 600 people who compile and update their consumer and business database. The Consumer database is updated from sources that include yellow pages, white pages, newspapers, incorporation records, real estate deed transfers and various other public sources. The business database is updated by, 24 million phone calls made every year to verify the name of the owner or key executive, their address, number of employees, fax numbers, e-mail addresses and other information.
Divisions
National Accounts Division (formerly Donnelley Marketing), Salesgenie, InfoUSA City Directories (formerly Hill-Donnelly), Polk City Directories, ReferenceUSA, Government, Resellers, InfoUSA Direct, American Church Lists, American Medical Information, InfoCANADA, Credit.net, InfoUSA Stores, DirectoriesUSA.com, ZIPMailUSA.com, Salesgenie.com, MarketZone, OneSource, Walter Karl, Edith Roman, Catalog Vision, Yesmail, Triplex, TRIPLEX interactive, Millard-Mokrynski Group (formerly Millard Group and Mokryskidirect), Rubin Response Services, Inc., expresscopy.com, Opinion Research, Macro International, Guideline, Inc. and NWC Research.
Competition
InfoGROUP's competitors are sites such as D&B, implu, InsideView, Jigsaw, Kompass, Hoovers, LexisNexis Corporate Afilliations and Zoominfo.