ACQUISITIONS AND DIVESTITURES

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

ACQUISITIONS AND DIVESTITURES [Abstract]

Note 16: Acquisitions and Divestitures

ACQUISITIONS

Through the three months ended March 31, 2016, we purchased the assets of a trucking business to complement our aggregates logistics and distribution activities for $1,611,000 of cash consideration.

For the full year 2015, we purchased the following for total consideration of $47,198,000 ($27,198,000 cash and $20,000,000 exchanges of real property and businesses (twelve California ready-mixed concrete operations)):

one aggregates facility in Tennessee

three aggregates facilities and seven ready-mixed concrete operations in Arizona and New Mexico

thirteen asphalt mix plants, primarily in Arizona

DIVESTITURES AND PENDING DIVESTITURES

As noted above, in 2015 (first quarter), we exchanged twelve ready-mixed concrete operations in California (representing all of our California concrete operations) for thirteen asphalt mix plants (primarily in Arizona) resulting in a pretax gain of $5,886,000.

No assets met the criteria for held for sale at March 31, 2016, December 31, 2015 or March 31, 2015.