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