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.

This easy-to-use handbook contains in-depth profiles of over 450 major U.S. private and public companies, from aerospace to railroads, from biotech to microchips, from accounting to retailing. It contains operations overviews, company strategies, histories, up to 10 years of key financial data, lists of products, executives' names, headquarters addresses, phone and fax numbers.

The IPO craze of the late 1990s has faded, but there are still a number of small, rapidly-growing companies in the USA. This text tells the story of 600 such companies, and features in-depth profiles for 100 of the companies. Also included are lists of fast-growing companies from top business publications.