Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> June 21, 2004
BRADLEY E. LARSON joined Meadow Valley Corporation as its Chief
Operating Officer approximately one year prior to the company's IPO in
October 1995. He was elected President and Chief Executive Officer in
November 1995. An Engineer by education, Mr. Larson has been engaged in
the construction or construction materials industries since his youth.
After obtaining his Industrial Engineering degree at Arizona State
University, Mr. Larson joined one of Arizona's largest and most
successful highway contractors and materials producers ' Tanner
Companies. During his nearly 20 year tenure with Tanner, the company
changed hands twice ' first, with Ashland, Inc.'s construction
subsidiary, APAC ' the country's largest asphalt paving contractor ' and
again with Kiewit & Sons', Inc., the country's largest heavy contractor.
This gave Mr. Larson valuable exposure to operating tendencies of very
large and successful contracting and materials companies. Having
observed the synergies of the contracting and materials businesses,
Meadow Valley created its own construction materials company, Ready Mix,
Inc. (RMI) in 1996. RMI has now grown to annual materials revenue of
almost $50 million to go along with annual contracting revenue of
approximately $100 million. Mr. Larson has been an active leader within
the construction industry, having served on a number of Boards of
industry associations. Profile
Mr. Larson: Meadow Valley Corporation is a holding company with two
subsidiaries, which are the two reporting segments of our company. The
first is our
