Booming Businesses

While cooperative administrative support units number only about half of what they did in the early 1990s, they raked in $135 million in revenues in fiscal 1998. For more information about CASUs, go to www.casu.gov.

CASU Revenues

(Fiscal 1998)

Fort Worth $1.5 million

Greater Hampton Roads (Virginia) $20 million

Kansas City $3.2 million

Northern Colorado (Fort Collins) $20,000

Minnesota $19,500

New Orleans $330,000

North Carolina N/A*

Northeast Regional (New York) $4.9 million

Oklahoma City N/A*

Pittsburgh $1.9 million

Rocky Mountain Regional (Denver) $7.5 million

South Carolina $6.0 million

Southeast Regional (Panama City, Fla.) $30.5 million

Franchise Business Activities**

Central (Cincinnati) $3.1 million

East (Baltimore) $9.4 million

Midwest (Chicago) $5.0 million

Seattle $8.8 million

St. Louis $8.1 million

West (Los Angeles) $20.4 million

San Antonio CASU $13 million

*No 1998 figures available because unit is new.

**Seven of the government's 13 franchises are part of the CASU network. While they aren't CASUs, they began as such. And the Treasury Department, which owns them, chose to keep them under the CASU umbrella. The other six franchises are not part of the network. The San Antonio one chooses to use both FBA and CASU in its name.

Source: Cooperative Administrative Support Unit Program