Book excerpt: Hoover's Handbook of Private Companies covers 714 nonpublic U.S. enterprises with revenues in excess of $600 million, including large industrial & service corporations like UPS & Goldman Sachs; hospitals & health care organizations such as Blue Cross; charitable & membership organizations including the Ford Foundation; mutual & cooperative organizations such as IGA; joint ventures such as Caltex; government-owned corporations such as the United States Postal Service; & major university systems, including The University of Texas System. This book features 210 in-depth Hoover's profiles (similar to those shown on pages 2-3) plus 504 shorter entries (as illustrated below). Company logos are shown for many of the profiled companies. Hoover's Handbook of Private Companies also includes lists of companies ranked by sales & by number of employees, plus Inc.'s list of fastest-growing private companies. It is indexed by headquarters location & industry, & by the people, companies & brand names mentioned in the profiles.