You'll get detailed information on 2,550 of the world's largest, fastest-growing and most influential public and private companies, for only $495 - that's just 19 cents per company! This set includes the Hoover's Handbooks of American Business, World Business, Private Companies and Emerging Companies. A combined index to the set is included in the back of Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies.

Item# HCOM08 • Hardcover • $495.00 • Four volumes

Hoover's Handbook of American Business has become the standard for accessible and interesting information about companies.

This comprehensive volume contains in-depth profiles of 750 of America's largest and most influential companies. You'll find major corporate giants like Coca-Cola, General Motors, Microsoft and Wal-Mart, plus a selection of more than 50 of the largest privately owned companies, including Cargill and Mars. Unlike any other business resource on the market, Hoover's examines the personalities, events and strategies that have made these enterprises leaders in their fields.

18th edition, December 2007 • Item# HABC08 • Hardcover • $245.00
ISBN 1-57311-120-1 • 1,005 pp. • One volume

Hoover's Handbook of Private Companies covers 900 nonpublic U.S. enterprises including large industrial and service corporations like Milliken & Company and PricewaterhouseCoopers; hospitals and health care organizations such as Blue Cross; charitable and membership organizations including the Ford Foundation; mutual and cooperative organizations such as IGA; joint ventures such as Motiva; government-owned corporations such as the United States Postal Service; and major university systems, including The University of Texas System.

Thirteenth edition, January 2008 • Item# HPC08 • Hardcover • $180.00
ISBN 1-57311-121-x • 8-1/2" x 11" • 586 pp.

Did you know that American icon 7-Eleven is controlled by Japanese retail giant Ito-Yokado, Miller Beer is brewed by South African Brewer SABMiller, and that the Los Angeles Dodgers are owned by The News Corporation, an Australian company?

These and hundreds of other public, private and state-owned companies headquartered outside the U.S. have a profound influence on American business and American life. In Hoover's Handbook of World Business, you'll find in-depth profiles of 300 of the most influential firms from Canada, Europe and Japan, as well as companies from the fast-growing economies of such countries as China, India and Taiwan.

Fifteenth edition, March 2008 • Item# HWBC08 • Hardcover • $195.00
ISBN 1-57311-122-8 • 8-1/2" x 11" • 388 pp.

The IPO craze of the late 1990s has faded, but there are still a number of small, rapidly growing companies in the U.S. Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies tells the story of 600 such companies, and features in-depth profiles for 200 of the companies. Also included are lists of fast-growing companies from top business publications.

Hoover's Handbook of Emerging Companies covers selected U.S. public companies with sales between $10 million and $1 billion, at least three years of reported sales, at least a 20% rate of sales growth during that time, and positive net income for their most recent fiscal year. But we've made a few exceptions to these rules, to cover some really interesting companies that don't quite fit the mold.

As an added bonus, you'll get a combined index to all four Hoover's Handbooks, including indexes by headquarters locations, industry, and the people, companies and brand names mentioned in the profiles.

Fifteenth edition, March 2008 • Item# HEC08 • Hardcover • $155.00
ISBN 1-57311-123-6 • 8 1/2" x 11" • 502 pp.