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Business Activity
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
Business Activity  
Business Activity

Note 1—Business Activity

 

Organization and operations Primoris Services Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries ARB, Inc. (“ARB”), ARB Structures, Inc., All Day Electric Company, Inc. (a 50% owned entity in 2010 and 100% owned entity in 2011), OnQuest, Inc., Born Heaters Canada, ULC, Cardinal Contractors, Inc., GML Coatings, LLC, Stellaris, LLC, Rockford Corporation (“Rockford”), Alaska Continental Pipeline, Inc. (formerly a division of Rockford), James Construction Group LLC (“JCG”), and Cardinal Mechanical, L.P. (incorporated as a division of JCG in April 2011), collectively, are engaged in various construction and product engineering activities. The Company’s underground and directional drilling operations install, replace and repair natural gas, petroleum, telecommunications and water pipeline systems. The Company’s industrial, civil and engineering operations build and provide maintenance services to industrial facilities including power plants, petrochemical facilities, and other processing plants, and construct multi-level parking structures, engage in the construction of highways, bridges and other environmental construction activities. The Company is incorporated in the State of Delaware and in 2011 moved its corporate headquarters from Lake Forest, California to 2100 McKinney Avenue, Suite 1500, Dallas, Texas 75201.

 

On November 8, 2010, the Company entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Rockford Agreement”) to acquire all of the outstanding shares of privately held Rockford Corporation (“Rockford”).  Upon completion of the transaction on November 12, 2010, Rockford became a wholly owned subsidiary of Primoris.  Based in Hillsboro (Portland), Oregon, Rockford specializes in the construction of large diameter natural gas and liquid pipelines and related facilities.

 

Unless specifically noted otherwise, as used throughout these condensed consolidated financial statements, “Primoris”, or the “Company”, “we”, “our”, “us” or “its” refers to the business, operations and financial results of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries.