Fluor Tops FORTUNE Magazine’s Most Admired Companies Engineering & Construction List

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that the company was recognized by FORTUNE Magazine in its 2013 “World’s Most Admired Companies” list earning the top ranking in the engineering and construction sector. For the second year in a row, Fluor earned the top designation among its peers in the E&C sector. Additionally, Fluor ranked in the overall top 10 in the “Global Competitiveness” category along with other respected companies such as Caterpillar, Google and ExxonMobil.

“Fluor has a strong tradition of executing complex international work and every year we deliver approximately 1,000 projects around the globe. We are able to accomplish our work through a very talented and dedicated global workforce and I want to congratulate them on this year’s FORTUNE rankings.”

“It is an incredible honor to not only rank at the top of our industry, but to also be recognized in the Global Competitiveness category among such well known and leading-edge companies,” said David Seaton, Fluor Corporation’s chairman and chief executive officer. “Fluor has a strong tradition of executing complex international work and every year we deliver approximately 1,000 projects around the globe. We are able to accomplish our work through a very talented and dedicated global workforce and I want to congratulate them on this year’s FORTUNE rankings.”

This year marks the 30th anniversary of FORTUNE Magazine’s list of companies ranked by reputation. Since 1997, FORTUNE has collaborated with The Hay Group, a global management consulting firm, to identify, select and rank the World’s Most Admired Companies based on the business practices, innovative spirit and social responsibility that make companies which are chosen for the list both highly regarded and successful. FORTUNE’s “Most Admired Companies” list is considered a definitive “report card” on corporate reputations. The rankings are compiled by measuring corporate reputation and performance against nine key attributes: innovation, people management, use of corporate assets, social responsibility, quality of management, financial soundness, long-term investment, quality of products and services and global competitiveness.

The 2013 list of the Most Admired Companies is featured in FORTUNE Magazine’s March issue. For more information, please visit http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/most-admired.

About Fluor Corporation

For more than 100 years, Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) has partnered with its clients to design, build and maintain many of the world's most challenging and complex capital projects. Through its global network of offices on six continents, more than 40,000 employees provide comprehensive capabilities and world-class expertise in the fields of engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, fabrication, operations, maintenance and project management. Today, the company serves a global client base in the energy, chemicals, government, industrial, infrastructure, operations & maintenance, manufacturing & life sciences, mining, power and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Fluor ranks 124 on the FORTUNE 500 list and had revenue of $27.6 billion in 2012. For more information, visit www.fluor.com.