The "D&B Elite SME Award" is held by D&B, a world-class leading company that provides commercial data, analytics, and insights for businesses. Every year D&B compare the government export data with D&B's proprietary big database and look into the payment records, financial stress index, payment index, purchasing power index, export growth rate and export brackets, etc., then elect the Top 1,000 out of the 1.3 million Taiwan small and medium enterprise (SME) for those whose annual import & export amount over USD500,000., no bounced checks and no legal dispute in negative effect.