MDU Resources Group, Inc.

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MDU Resources Group, Inc. (NYSE: MDU), a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P MidCap 400 Index, provides value-added natural resource products and related services that are essential to energy and transportation infrastructure. The company operates in three core lines of business: utility resources, energy and construction materials. MDU Resources includes electric and natural gas utilities, construction services, natural gas and oil production, natural gas pipelines and energy services and construction materials and contracting.

Company Highlights

• A Fortune 500 diversified asset-based natural resource company
• Celebrating 85 years of business in 2009
• Solid balance sheet with equity of nearly 60% of total capital
• Ten-year compound annual shareholder return of 8% at March 31, 2009
• 2008 consolidated earnings from continuing operations of $377.2 million, up 17% from 2007 excluding the effect of an $84.2 million after-tax noncash charge
• 2008 results include record revenues surpassing $5 billion and record cash flows of $786 million
• 71 consecutive years of uninterrupted quarterly common stock dividend payments
• Dividend increased 6.9% in August 2008, marking the 18th consecutive year of dividend increases
• Member of S&P MidCap 400 Index