Koegel Meat Company

Koegel Meat Company
Private corporation
Industry Food production
Founded 1916
Founder Albert Koegel[1]
Headquarters Flint Township, Michigan, USA
Number of locations
 1
Area served
 Midwest: Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana
Key people
 John C. Koegel , President
Kathryn Koegel, Vice President
Products wholesale meats products[1]
Number of employees
 110[2]
Website koegelmeats.com

The Koegel Meat Company is a meat processing, packaging, and distribution company based in Flint Township, Michigan. Koegel's produces 27 types of meat products[3] including 16 types of hot dogs: brats, Italian sausage, foot-longs, franks, vienna frankfurters, and bologna rings.[4] Koegel's hot dogs are considered by the authors of "Coney Detroit" as the best hot dog for a Flint-Style Coney Dog along with Abbott's Meat's coney sauce.[5][6] Koegel is also a supplier of A&W, about 200 Coney restaurants, Walmart, and Dairy Queen.[7]

Koegel's delivery truck, Pittsfield Township, Michigan

History

Albert Koegel learned meat cutting and developed various recipes while in his native Germany. The company was founded in 1916[1] by Koegel on Kearsley Street, Flint as a retail market to take part in the expanding population due to the automotive industry starting up. To keep up with the regional demands, Koegel opened a processing plant in the Mid-1930s.[7] In 1972, the company operations were moved to Bristol Road, Flint Township.[8]

Koegel's made news when the Michigan Jobs Commission awarded an economic development package to one of Koegel's competitors, Boar's Head Provision Company, in 1998. While Boar's Head is a New York company, it was awarded a large incentive, paid with taxpayer money, to open a processing plant in Michigan. Al Koegel, the son of company founder Albert Koegel, claims that Koegel's has never accepted taxpayer money or tax breaks from the state.[9]

In 2007, Michigan locations of Costco started carrying Koegel products.[7] In 2008, Koegel's discontinued two products, a honey-style loaf and ham. President John Koegel told the press that in previous years, a couple of truckloads of the ham product would be sold per annum, but declining sales forced its discontinuation.[8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Company Overview of Koegel Meats, Inc.". Businessweek Company profiles. Bloomberg. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  2. ↑ "Koegel Meats Inc". Company Profiles. Manta Media Inc. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "Koegel Products". koegelmeats.com. Koegel Meats. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  4. ↑ Krueger, Ron (July 10, 2007). "Cover up: Top dogs slip under a blanket of mustard, kraut, salsa, bacon ...". The Flint Journal. Archived from the original on July 17, 2007. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  5. ↑ Atkinson, Scott (March 27, 2012). "Michigan Coney Dog Project: Koegel's and sauce key to a Flint coney". Flint Journal. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  6. ↑ Atkinson, Scott (March 22, 2012). "Flint-style coneys researched and defined in new book, "Coney Detroit"". The Flint Journal. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Dybis, Karen (June 20, 2007). "Meat company sizzles during grilling season". Detroit News. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Burden, Melissa (February 6, 2008). "Koegel Meats cuts two products". Flint Journal. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
  9. ↑ "The Real Cost of Corporate Welfare". Institute for Humane Studies. Archived from the original on December 2, 2005. Retrieved November 1, 2005.

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