Martin Marietta
Weather slows Martin Marietta but quarterly net sales still up
Martin Marietta Materials Inc. reported a 4-percent net sales increase Tuesday, when the company released its second-quarter performance results. Pricing growth of all aggregates products and a quarterly net sales record the company's Specialty Products business established drove Martin Marietta's… Keep Reading
Martin Marietta reports first-quarter results
Martin Marietta Materials Inc. released its first-quarter report today, noting that the company's results were in line with management's expectations for the winter months. “Due to a more normal winter weather pattern, and in fact, more severe and extended in… Keep Reading
The crazy task of reporting quarterly numbers
My wife works at a newspaper, and she was telling me that a young business reporter had written a long story about a local bank's second-quarter earnings -- taking all of the information directly from the bank's earnings report. The… Keep Reading
Martin Marietta-Vulcan ruling explained further
Bloomberg reports that the Delaware Supreme Court has expanded on a May 31 ruling, concluding in a 42-page explanatory opinion that a lower court properly found Martin Marietta Materials Inc. could not proceed with a hostile takeover of Vulcan Materials… Keep Reading
Competitive fires
Martin Marietta Materials' takeover bid for Vulcan Materials has strengthened the competitive fire between the nation's two largest aggregate producers. And understandably so. The companies have been going at each other pretty good lately, since Martin Marietta announced its intentions on Dec.… Keep Reading
