Long-serving Kigass accountant Monica Evans has turned the first sod of a multi-million pound development that will convert a former engineering plant in Warwick into a job-creating enterprise centre.
Monica (86), who started work 67 years ago as an accounts clerk at Kigass Ltd in Leamington Spa when she was 19, is still managing the books at the family-owned company which today runs a world-beating engineering business and an extensive property portfolio that includes industrial, commercial and residential locations.
With the help of Leamington property consultants ehB Commercial, Kigass Ltd has already sold five of the 11 industrial units at a long-established former dumper truck factory in Lower Cape, Warwick, which has lain idle for the last decade, but is scheduled to become the £3 million St George’s Business Park
Monica, who lives in Leamington, said: “I love working for Kigass – it has been my life and will continue to be important to me. Looking back, I have only ever not been able to account for twopence, which is quite an achievement really. Now, looking forward, I am very honoured to be a part of the future as the business continues to grow and create new jobs for the area.”
Simon Hain, a director of ehB Commercial, said: “We have a wide range of businesses interested in the mixed site – from doors and window manufacturers to automotive companies – watch this space.”