Eyes of Texas shine upon expanding companies: Fluor Corp. to relocate headquarters to Dallas...

IN LATE 2004, EXECUTIVES WITH FLUOR Corp., which provides engineering, procurement, construction, operations and project management services for other companies, made a decision that many firms must make: whether to move closer to the majority of its customers.

Fluor officials determined in order to better serve its U.S. customer base, it needed to relocate its corporate headquarters closer to the South. After a lengthy and thorough search process, the company announced in July that it would relocate its headquarters to Irving, Texas, in the Dallas metro.

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