Hoover´s Handbook
Chapter 2
- Hoover´s Handbook Description of publication
- Hoover´s Handbook of American Business Sample page
- Hoover´s Handbook of World Business Sample page
- Gale Research Information Solutions Recommended supplement
From this chapter:
The Hoover’s Handbooks cited above provide profiles on specific companies, both domestic and international, in terms of size, growth, visibility, and so on. The good news is the detailed profiles of 1,500 companies (all large); the bad news is that there are approximately 20 million of them (almost all small), not including farms. The top 500 companies represent about 55 percent of the U.S. gross national product.
One primary reason the Hoover’s Handbooks are offered at the beginning of this book is the service that its publisher, Hoover’s Inc., provides. Hoover’s, Inc. is a leading provider of business information to the mass market. Its Hoover’s Company Database, for example, is the only "reasonably priced source" (according to its editors) for information on the operations, strategies, histories, financial performance, and products of major U.S. and global public and private companies.
The format is simple, well organized, and easy to read. A list of the databases produced by Hoover’s includes: