Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies chronicles the rise of 250 of America's most dynamic growth firms. This book focuses on U.S. companies with revenues between $20 million & $1 billion that have experienced sales growth of at least 25 percent annually in the past five years & have had positive net income for the last year. Discover how companies like Boston Beer, Bed Bath & Beyond & Starbucks have raced past their competitors to become leaders in their fields. You'll learn about young companies, such as Yahoo! & Papa John's, that are poised for explosive growth, & the stories behind recent IPOs such as RealNetworks & Amazon.com. Anyone with a need to know about the hottest growth companies in the U.S. will find this book a gold mine of useful information. It includes lists of fast-growing companies from Business Week, Forbes, Inc., FORTUNE & other publications, & is indexed by headquarters location & industry, & by the people, companies & brand names mentioned in the profiles.

Hoover's Handbook of Private Companies covers 714 nonpublic U.S. enterprises with revenues in excess of $600 million, including large industrial & service corporations like UPS & Goldman Sachs; hospitals & health care organizations such as Blue Cross; charitable & membership organizations including the Ford Foundation; mutual & cooperative organizations such as IGA; joint ventures such as Caltex; government-owned corporations such as the United States Postal Service; & major university systems, including The University of Texas System. This book features 210 in-depth Hoover's profiles (similar to those shown on pages 2-3) plus 504 shorter entries (as illustrated below). Company logos are shown for many of the profiled companies. Hoover's Handbook of Private Companies also includes lists of companies ranked by sales & by number of employees, plus Inc.'s list of fastest-growing private companies. It is indexed by headquarters location & industry, & by the people, companies & brand names mentioned in the profiles.

Did you know that American icon 7-Eleven is controlled by Japanese retail giant Ito-Yokado, Dunkin' Donuts is owned by British conglomerate Allied Domecq & that Fox Broadcasting Company & the New York Post are run by The News Corporation, an Australian company? These & hundreds of other public, private & state-owned companies headquartered outside the U.S. have a profound influence on American business & American life. In Hoover's Handbook of World Business, you'll find indepth profiles of 250 of the most influential firms from Canada, Europe & Japan, as well as companies from the fast-growing economies of such countries as Brazil, China & Taiwan. Hoover's Handbook of World Business includes lists of the top global companies from FORTUNE & other publications, as well as lists of companies on many of the major foreign stock indexes, such as the British FTSE-10 & Japan's Nikkei 225. Indexes are organized by headquarters location & industry, & by the people, companies & brand names mentioned in the profiles.

This guide provides vital information on more than 5100 of the largest US public and private companies and other enterprises (government owned, foundations, schools, partnerships, subsidiaries, joint ventures, co-operatives and not-for-profits) with sales of more than $125 million, plus public companies with a market capitalization of more than $500 million.

A resource for anyone interested in international business, this fact-filled guide covers the top 1600 companies in dozens of countries around the world. Companies are indexed by both industry and country. It includes: non-US companies with sales greater than $5 billion; companies with sales of $500 million or more with ADRs trading on US exchanges plus nearly 200 others traded OTC; the companies comprising the major indexes from stock markets worldwide (FTSE 100, Nikkei 225, TSE 100, SBF 120 and others); and the top companies from key countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Rim.

This third edition of Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies chronicles the rise of America's fastest-growing firms, from brewers to waste disposal services, fast-food outlets to on-line services, and health care providers to software designers.