Third Quarter Earnings Results Nov. 10, 2009 @ 10:00AM ET (Live)
Michael Baker Corporation (Baker) was founded in 1940 by Michael Baker Jr., and quickly attained recognition as a premiere engineering design and survey firm through superior project performance for the U.S. military, preceding World War II. Following the death of the founder in 1977 and a corporate restructuring in 1984, major ownership and control shifted to an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), and the Company began a period of steady growth in size, scope of services, and financial stability.
Today, Baker (http://www.mbakercorp.com) provides comprehensive professional services for its clients that span the complete life cycle of infrastructure and managed asset projects, including: planning; design; construction services; operations; maintenance; and asset renewal. The firm's primary service lines are focused on the aviation, environmental, facilities, federal, geospatial information technologies, pipelines and telecommunications, transportation, and water/wastewater markets in both the private and public sectors.
Headquartered near Pittsburgh, PA, Baker employs over 2,300, maintains over 40 office locations across the United States, and is publicly traded on the NYSE Amex exchange under the symbol, BKR. In 2008, the Company achieved total contract revenues of $699.4 million. Engineering News-Record (ENR) magazine currently ranks Baker in the top 10 percent of the 500 largest U.S. engineering firms (currently 40th in ENR's Top 500 Design Firms) and is consistently ranked as one of the Top 25 engineering firms in a variety of markets, including transportation, airports, highways, bridges, water supply, pipelines, environmental site assessments and telecommunications.