Dun & Bradstreet, the company behind the global knowledge graph that powers commercial decision-making, and FedEx Dataworks, the advanced insights and intelligence platform transforming FedEx beyond transportation, announced a strategic collaboration to deliver new data and analytics solutions for enterprises worldwide. By uniting FedEx Dataworks’ rich shipping intelligence with Dun & Bradstreet’s proprietary business and risk data, organizations will gain an unprecedented, end-to-end view of their supplier ecosystems and corporate relationships across all shipment modes—turning previously hidden activity into actionable intelligence to predict and identify risk, respond faster to disruption, and build more resilient supply chains.
The first offering to be introduced under the collaboration is the Dun & Bradstreet and FedEx Dataworks Retail Momentum Index, a new market intelligence solution designed to close critical visibility gaps in retail trade for business and financial decision-makers globally. The Retail Momentum Index combines FedEx Dataworks’ surface and air shipping data with Dun & Bradstreet’s maritime shipping volumes and container delay data, along with proprietary business activity signals, company entity attributes, and industry and geographic insights.
These combined data signals will provide a near real-time perspective of U.S. retail momentum on both the supply side and the demand side of the economy, allowing decision-makers to tap into the future trends and inflection points of the market before they show up in other government statistical releases such as monthly retail sales or inventory reports. The Retail Momentum Index will compare against the adjusted monthly returns of the Advance Monthly Retail Sales and Food Services dataset from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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“Businesses around the world rely on Dun & Bradstreet’s supply chain insights to navigate risk in a constantly evolving geopolitical landscape,” said Alex Zuck, general manager of risk at Dun & Bradstreet. “Through our deepening collaboration with FedEx Dataworks, we are turning data into signals and signals into insights that ultimately help illuminate risks before they become disruptions.”
“FedEx has long been regarded as a bellwether for the global economy, and now through FedEx Dataworks we are fusing insights with Dun & Bradstreet’s to unlock an unmatched source of economic verity for decision-makers across industries,” said Tony Kreager, enterprise vice president, information technology, chief engineering and commercial officer, FedEx Dataworks. “By pairing physical movement data with rich business context, we are creating intelligence that reflects how the economy is actually moving—not how it looked weeks ago.”
Early findings from the upcoming Retail Momentum Index indicate that retail activity remained subdued through the 2025 holiday season, while more recent data points to early signs of stabilization. The index also shows a meaningful improvement in the overall credit health of U.S. retail businesses, coinciding with the Federal Reserve’s three interest rate cuts in 2025.