MeritDirect Adds Experian Data to MeritBase

MeritDirect has added Experian’s National Business Database to its proprietary cooperative prospecting database MeritBase.

“We first had the opportunity to evaluate Experian’s database in May, 2004 when we entered into a partnership with them to launch a new membership co-op database, b2bBase,” said MeritDirect president Ralph Drybrough in a statement.

The announcement follows by one day a statement by infoUSA that it would no longer license data to MeritBase. InfoUSA cited its own business-to-business co-op, Business Response Alliance Data (BRAD), which is run by its Edith Roman division.