After all, Laird & Company, privately held, reports average annual revenue of about $45 million.
Spanx now offers more than two hundred different products, and executives at the company, which is privately held, and reported three hundred and fifty million dollars in global retail sales in 2008, worry that customers are having trouble distinguishing among them.
"All journalists want to talk about is the recession, but somebody must be shopping, because we're doing a couple of billion dollars of volume," said Mr. Green, whose privately held Arcadia Group reported operating profits of $502 million for the year that ended in August, a decline of 6.1percentt from the previous year.
McKee Foods, a privately held company, reports annual revenue of $1.2 billion, though it does not report revenue for Little Debbie specifically.
The privately held companies had reported revenues of more than $1 billion last year.
Christie's, which is privately held, did not report financial results, only year-end sales figures.
Since the taxpayers took over the companies, re-default rates have been consistently lower at Fannie and Freddie than among privately held mortgages, the report shows.
Even though Rovio is privately held, it has to report earnings every year under Finnish law.
At the time, the company, which is privately held by the Mohn family, reported sales growth of 4.5 percent, to €16.1 billion.
