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Revision as of 18:16, 24 January 2014 by 96.35.92.114 (talk) (→External links)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)| Company type | Private corporation |
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| Industry | Food production |
| Founded | 1916 |
| Founder | Albert Koegel |
| 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 |
| Number of employees | 110 |
| 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 including 16 types of hot dogs: brats, Italian sausage, foot-longs, franks, vienna frankfurters, and bologna rings. Koegel's hot dogs are consider by the authors of "Coney Detroit" as only acceptable hot dog for a Flint-Style Coney Dog along with Abbott's Meat's coney sauce. Koegel is also a supplier of A&W, about 200 Coney restaurants, Walmart and Dairy Queen.
History
Albert Koegel learned meat cutting and developed various recipes while in his native Germany. The company was founded in 1916 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. In 1972, the company operations were moved to Bristol Road, Flint Township.
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.
In 2007, Michigan locations of Costco started carrying Koegel products.
References
- ^ "Company Overview of Koegel Meats, Inc". Businessweek Company profiles. Bloomberg. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- "Koegel Meats Inc". Company Profiles. Manta Media Inc. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- "Koegel Products". koegelmeats.com. Koegel Meats. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- Krueger, Ron (July 10, 2007). "Cover up: Top dogs slip under a blanket of mustard, kraut, salsa, bacon ..." (PDF). The Flint Journal. Archived from the original on July 17, 2007. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- Atkinson, Scott (March 27, 2012). "Michigan Coney Dog Project: Koegel's and sauce key to a Flint coney". Flint Journal. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- Atkinson, Scott (March 22, 2012). "Flint-style coneys researched and defined in new book, "Coney Detroit"". The Flint Journal. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- ^ Dybis, Karen (June 20, 2007). "Meat company sizzles during grilling season" (PDF). Detroit News. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- Burden, Melissa (February 6, 2008). "Koegel Meats cuts two products". Flint Journal. Retrieved 19 April 2012.
- "The Real Cost of Corporate Welfare". Institute for Humane Studies. Archived from the original on December 2, 2005. Retrieved November 1, 2005.
