Baker To Delay Reporting of First Quarter 2008 Financial Results

PITTSBURGH, May 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Michael Baker Corporation
(Amex: BKR) (the "Company") announced today that it recently filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Form 12b-25, advising that the
Company would be delayed in reporting its financial results for the first
quarter of 2008 while it works to complete the previously announced
restatement and file the related reports with the SEC. The Company expects to
issue preliminary and unaudited financial information for the first quarter of
2008 compared to the actual and reported results, prior to any restatement,
for the same period in 2007, on May 27, 2008. The Company will be providing
these preliminary results in an effort to keep its shareholders informed about
the performance of the Company while it works to complete the aforementioned
restatement.
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The Company provided its reasons for the delay in the filing of Form 10-K
for 2007 in a news release dated February 22, 2008. This news release, which
also contains selected, preliminary and unaudited financial results for the
Company for 2007, is available on the Company's website at
http://www.mbakercorp.com.
Michael Baker Corporation provides engineering and operations and
maintenance services for its clients' most complex challenges worldwide. The
firm's primary business areas are aviation, environmental, facilities,
geospatial information technologies, pipelines and utilities, transportation,
water/wastewater, and oil & gas. With more than 4,000 employees in over 50
offices across the United States and internationally, Baker is focused on
creating value by delivering innovative and sustainable solutions for
infrastructure and the environment.
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David Higie of Michael Baker Corporation, +1-412-269-6449