An organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms.
1 Just then a clerk came in and handed him a slip of paper, which I recognized as a special report from the mercantile agency .
2 But the mercantile agencies omit to tell us some very important points about men.
3 The facts obtained by mercantile agencies are not public property.
4 Bradstreet's and other mercantile agencies say, in reporting Randolph & Randolph, "Worth fifty millions and upward, credit unlimited."
5 When the mercantile agencies were young, they acquired a consensus of opinion upon a business man by annoying his acquaintances with inquiries.
6 "Are not the mercantile agencies almost always sure to find something against a man or a firm?"
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