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Running Lists for Privately Held Businesses

  • February 25, 2026
  • 1 reply
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I work for a company that specializes in family-owned businesses. We have used D&B Hoovers for years to help find prospects in our focused areas. 

I keep running into an issue when running lists for privately-held, parent companies. Non--profits, municipalities, BOE, non-privately held companies are showing in the results and they aren’t true privately-held businesses.

We run these lists by annual revenue, entity type, and narrow it down by area code for each state we work in. 

Is there a better way to find these companies? I’m at a loss and don’t want to keep getting results like hospitals, boards of education, non-profits, etc. 

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wheelern
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  • D&B Employee
  • February 25, 2026

Hi, are you using these filters in Build a List?