Koegel Meat Company

The Koegel Meat Company is a meat processing, packaging, and distribution company based in the city of Flint, Michigan. Koegel's produces 35 types of meat products, including bologna, hotdogs, sausages, franks, loafs, salamis, vienna frankfurters, and gourmet meat products.

Koegel Meats is located in Genesee County, just outside of Flint near Bishop International Airport. Most of the products made at Koegel's are sold in Michigan, with a small number of items being shipped to Toledo, Ohio.

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.ref|IHS

History

Albert Koegel moved to Flint in 1916 and apprenticed in Germany. He started his own small plant near Flint in the 1930s. Another plant was built by Albert's son, Al, in 1972.

References

# cite web | title= The Real Cost of Corporate Welfare | work= Institute for Humane Studies | url= http://www.theihs.org/article.php/304.html | accessmonthday=November 1 | accessyear=2005

External links

* [http://www.koegelmeats.com/ Koegel Meats]