Posted on 05/07/2008 11:26:25 AM PDT by redtetrahedron
KBR Corp. said today it would buy BE&K, the 48th largest general construction contractor in the country with 9,000 worldwide employees, for $550 million. KBR, the nation's fourth largest general contractor, was spun off last year as its own publicly traded company from Houston-based Halliburton Corp., the largest contractor for military services in Iraq.
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maybe they’ll pay their subs in a timely manner now...
Go Boris !
Do they have projects in Iraq?
KBR does. Most of their work is international. BE&K does mainly U.S. work.
I know the Suitt people in Orlando who got absorbed by BE&K a few years ago.
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