Tegel Foods
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2015}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Tegel Foods
| logo = Tegel Foods logo.png
| type = Private
| founded = 1961
| hq_location_city = Auckland
| hq_location_country = New Zealand
| owner = Bounty Fresh{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/tegel-group-set-to-de-list-from-nzx-as-bounty-fresh-foods-crosses-90-per-cent-threshold/C77FQ3N2WYAO5PSJZ6NEXPPRTY/|title = Tegel Group set to de-list from NZX as Bounty Fresh Foods crosses 90 per cent threshold}}
| website = https://www.tegel.co.nz/
}}
Tegel Foods Limited is a New Zealand poultry producer. The company is involved in breeding, hatching, processing, marketing, sales, and distribution of poultry products across New Zealand and to selected international markets. With over 2,300 employees nationwide, Tegel offers both cage free and free range chickens across a wide range of products. Tegel is independently audited to meet the highest New Zealand animal welfare standards.{{cite web |url=https://www.tegel.co.nz/our-story/ |title=Nz's Favourite Chicken for over 50 Years |website=tegel.co.nz |access-date=21 October 2021}}
International
Tegel has products available for international markets across retail, food service and fast food (QSR) channels. It currently exports to the Pacific Islands, Australia, Asia & the Middle East.{{cite web |url=https://www.tegel.co.nz/tegel-international/ |title=Tegel International |website=tegel.co.nz |access-date=21 October 2021}}
Controversy
Sue Kedgley MP, New Zealand Green Party Animal Welfare Spokesperson, lodged a complaint with the New Zealand Advertising Standards Complaints Board in February 2002 about allegedly misleading Tegel promotions.[https://archive.today/20120904153435/http://www.greens.org.nz/node/11803 Kedgley lodges complaint over Tegel's 'pure natural' ads], 3 Feb 2002, greens.org.nz. Retrieved on 5 July 2009.