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 do 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 move 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.
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