In-plant Keeps 'Soup' Cooking

Book publisher Health Communications struck it rich with the book "Chicken Soup for the Soul." Now its in-plant has its work cut out for it.

If the staff of book publisher Health Communications Inc. (HCI) believes in the curative powers of chicken soup, it's not without good reason. Five years ago the Deerfield Beach, Fla.-based company was struggling to survive as a publisher of pamphlets and books dealing with drug and alcohol treatment. Then company president and co-founder Peter Vegso read a manuscript that made him cry, and he decided to publish it, not knowing it had been rejected by 33 other publishers.