Hoover's Handbook of Private Companies covers 1700 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. Unlike other business resources, it includes in-depth company profiles featuring the personalities, events, and strategies that have made these enterprises major players -- information you are not likely to find elsewhere. - Publisher.