Company History
BvD was established as a separate entity in 1991 following the division of activities within the former Bureau Marcel van Dijk. BvD has 500 employees working in 29 offices. Around 200 staff work in Brussels in product management, analysis, software engineering, quality control, sourcing, production and hosting. A further 250 staff work in sales, marketing and customer support in Amsterdam, Bahrain, Beijing, Bratislava, Brussels, Chicago, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Geneva, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Manchester, Mexico City, Milan, Moscow, New York, Paris, Rome, San Francisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Vienna and Zurich.
We also have 50 specialist researchers in the UK and Singapore collecting global merger and acquisition data plus a team of journalists writing stories on deals and rumours. BvD has always been profitable. We are owned by the private equity company BC Partners and our senior management.
We have been ISO 9001 compliant since 1998.