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Mergent, a Xinhua Finance company, is one of the leading providers of business and financial data on global publicly listed companies. The company is headquartered in New York and Charlotte, N.C., with sales offices in many North American cities as well as London, Tokyo, Toronto and Sydney, Australia. Mergent s databases include information on more than 15,000 United States and 20,000 non-United States public companies in more than 100 countries. It is the publisher of the Dividend Achievers family of indexes including broad, international, high growth and Canadian. Mergent products and services include Ford Equity Research, independent equity research with buy, sell and hold recommendations; Mergent online; Mergent manuals, handbooks and investment guides; EventsData, a Web-based reporting of corporate actions and events; and BondSource, which gives access to municipal and corporate fixed income data and end-of-day evaluation pricing.