Publisher's Synopsis
This companion volume to "Hoover's Handbook of World Business" provides an overview of American businesses. It provides 500 one-page profiles of America's largest and most influential companies along with Hoover's own ratings of each company's strength. The company profiles contain operations overviews, company strategies, company histories, key financial and employment data, lists of products, and addresses and telephone and fax numbers.;The edition contains a special section on the companies that have created the most jobs in the past decade and those that have eliminated the most employees. Also included are indexes by industry, headquarters location, people, companies and brand names, with over 11,000 entries.
