The Koegel Meat Company is a meat, packaging and distribution company based in Flint Township, Michigan. Koegel produces 35 products. Koegel hot dogs are considered by the author of "Coney Detroit" as the best hot dog for Flint-Style Coney Dog along with Abbott's Meat cone sauce. Koegel is also an A & amp; W, about 200 Coney restaurants, Walmart, Dairy Queen, and Kroger. Distribution of its own products to each store gives Koegel an advantage because it is able to provide shorter shelf life, at half its competitors, to ensure fresh produce.
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Histori
Albert Koegel learned to cut meat and develop various recipes while in his native Germany. The company was founded in 1916 by Koegel at Kearsley Street, Flint, as a retail market to take part in a growing population as the automotive industry begins. Production is on the top floor to the retail area. To meet the regional demands, Koegel opened a processing plant in the mid-1930s at Stevens Street in Flint River. In 1972, the company's operations moved to Bristol Road, Flint Township.
Koegel made the news when the Michigan Jobs Commission gave the economic development package to one of Koegel's Boar's Head Provision Company rivals in 1998. While Boar's Head is a New York company, he gets a huge incentive, paid with taxpayer money, to open a factory processing in Michigan. Al Koegel, the son of founder Albert Koegel, claims that Koegel never received taxpayers' money or tax breaks from the state.
In 2007, the location of Michigan Costco began carrying Koegel products. In 2008, Koegel stopped two products, bread and ham a la honey. President John Koegel told the press that in previous years, several truckloads of ham products would be sold annually, but declining sales forced the cessation. With the Great Recession declining, Koegel's sales increased over the first few years as people prepared more food at home. The price of beef rises after it cuts profits.
In 2012, Koegel and Meijer agreed on a distribution deal that placed Koegel products at Meijer stores in other states, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois while storing direct distribution to Michigan Meijer stores. Maintaining a Michigan distribution allows their drivers to keep their jobs and keep other customers like A & amp; W, Dairy Queen and Kroger. Previously, company products were only available in Michigan and Toledo, Ohio. The deal adds 98 new retail outlets for four to six products with two, hot dogs and bologna, as the core product.
A few years before 2016, Koegel sells nationwide via mail order as far as Alaska. Keogel Meats was awarded the 2015 Al Kessel Extraordinary Achievement by the Michigan Merchants Selling Association. In January 2016, Koegel had to answer some questions, related to the Flint water crisis and their water supply, that their factory was not connected to the Flint City water system, but the system run by the county through Flint Township.
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Factory
Built in 1972, the factory is currently on Bristol Road in Flint Township. Plant features include:
- production moves from east to west without turning back to reduce contamination samples
- Floor production areas including bricks as sour meat will erode concrete for years
- 100,000 square feet
- ceiling, equipment and walls made of stainless steel
Products and recipes
Koegel meat makes 64 products based on 32 different recipes. It includes 16 kinds of sausages and hot dogs: kid, Italian sausage, leg-length, franks, frennaers vienna, bologna rings, chicken frank and sausage paint. Meat lunch products include bolognas, cotto salami, Dutch bread, olive bread, spring onions, head cheese and mac & amp; cheese bread. Also they make coneys and hot dog chilli products.
Koegel uses his 100-year-old recipe that his meat products are sucked in wet wood powder with hardwood for flavor and in his own spice mix. The process has changed for 100 years moving from hand stuffing to machine-based operations.
References
External links
- koegelmeats
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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