Trans Union will announce today that it has acquired a controlling interest in TrueLink Inc., an online provider of credit information to consumers, sources said.
TrueLink Inc., San Luis Obispo, CA, does business through the Web sites www.truecredit.com and www.freecreditprofile.com. It has from 65 to 70 employees.
Replacing Russell Schaub as president of TrueLink is Jan L. Davis, an executive president at Trans Union, a Chicago-based information service company. She will add the TrueLink job to her other duties, the sources said.
Founded six years ago, TrueLink entered the credit information field roughly three years ago.