Kokosing history

So it was sold around 1960.

In 1963 a two-acre plot on Waterford Road was purchased to build a storage building and maintenance shop.

In 1964, if the company was to continue to grow and to qualify for industrial work, union affiliation was necessary.

In 1970 an additional 16 acre tract adjoining the original office site was purchased to provide for more office/shop expansion.

The first computer system was installed in 1971.

In 1974 the second new shop building was constructed, making the total office and shop space was over 14,000 square feet.

Kokosing purchased The Wander Company in 1976, and entered into the treatment plant and bridge building areas of construction.

Kokosing Materials, Inc. was incorporated in January 1980.

Owl Creek Contracting was incorporated in December 1981 to provide independent trucking services for Kokosing and other companies.

Brad, who had developed and started the asphalt and gravel operations, was now looking to start a western division, which turned out to be in Arizona in 1982.

1983 Adena Corporation was incorporated.

1986 Valerie Matusik, VP Public Relations, resigned her teaching position in Canton, Ohio and joined Kokosing Construction in accounts payable.

In 1989 my attention was turned to the Ohio political arena when then Mayor George and Janet Voinovich had a meeting with Brian and myself at our Fredericktown office and asked our help to get the construction industry involved in his race for the Governor of Ohio.

Barth Burgett, VP Equipment/Maintenance, took over the responsibility of the management of Kokosing’s equipment department in 1990.

In 1991 the paving operation of Newark Asphalt Paving Company became part of the Kokosing Member Group.

The assets of McGraw Construction in Middletown were purchased in July 1992 and a new company was formed – McGraw/Kokosing, Inc.

He began working at Kokosing during the summer of 1993 as a laborer helping build the Fredericktown Ohio Library and continued working during future summers as a pipelayer on several projects.

Olen continued to grow and acquired the assets of Weber Aggregates in 1994.

Key in maintaining the growth of the company are Brett’s partner and cousin, William Bryce Burgett, co-CEO of Kokosing, and sister Lori (Burgett) Gillett, CEO of Corna Kokosing, a Westerville operation the company acquired in 1995.

The Adena Corporation was sold to Dave Bush in April 1997.

1998 saw some new animals on the farm of Janenne Burgett, our daughter-in-law.

Land was purchased in Westerville in August 1999 to form the Westerville Industrial Park.

March 2000 brought the purchase by Kokosing of the holdings of Halesada Holding Company, Inc., which included Dyno Construction, H & L Underground, Inc. and Advanced Boring Technologies.

Ken has over 34 years of experience in the aggregates business, and has been President of The Olen Corporation and Area Aggregates since 2001.

Bryce graduated from Ohio Northern University in 2004 with a Civil Engineering degree.

In 2005, Kokosing Materials constructed a SBS polymer plant to assure that all liquid supplied to our asphalt plants is internally tested in our AMRL certified laboratory and of the highest quality.

Today: In February 2018, Corman Construction and Corman Marine Construction joined the Kokosing family of companies reorganizing as one company: Corman Kokosing Construction Company.

Gillett was named Corna Kokosing CEO in June 2019, and since then, she has made it a goal to continue the momentum that has carried the company.