Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> December 2, 2002

John Landon – Meritage Corporation (mth)

JOHN R. LANDON is co-Chairman and co-Chief Executive Officer of Meritage Corporation, a NYSE-listed homebuilding company with projected 2002 revenues exceeding $1 billion. Meritage Corporation operates in nine Sunbelt cities under various brand names, one of which is Legacy Homes ' a company founded by Mr. Landon in 1987. Prior to founding Legacy Homes, Mr. Landon's experience included land acquisition and development operations for a large homebuilder, sales and land development for the Trammel Crow Residential Group and public accounting with Ernst & Whinney. Mr. Landon received his undergraduate degree in Accounting from Louisiana State University. He is a member of the National Association of Homebuilders and the Dallas Home Builders Association. Mr. Landon currently serves as a member of the NAHB's High Production Builder Council. Profile
TWST: Briefly tell us what Meritage Corporation does.

Mr. Landon: Meritage Corporation is a national, single-family

homebuilder. We build homes in the south and west in Texas,

Arizona, and