Tegel Foods
New Zealand's largest integrated poultry producer.
Tegel Foods is New Zealand's largest poultry producer, processing and marketing fresh, frozen, and value-added chicken and turkey products for retail, food-service, and export markets. The company owns an integrated supply chain from breeder flocks, hatcheries, and contracted grow-out farms through to five processing and further-processing plants across the North and South Islands. Tegel produces more than 90 million kilograms of poultry per year and supplies New Zealand's major supermarket chains, quick-service restaurants, and food-service distributors under the Tegel and Just Chicken brands.
- Type
- Manufacturer
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Founded
- 1961
- Website
- tegel.co.nz
- Categories
- Specialty & Gourmet Food, Frozen & Chilled Food
- Markets
- New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Singapore
Verified facts
- registered-address (green), checked 2026-08-24 https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/mynzbn/nzbndetails/9429040443737/
- registered-since (green), checked 2026-08-24 https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/mynzbn/nzbndetails/9429040443737/
- registry-id-verified (green), checked 2026-08-24 https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/mynzbn/nzbndetails/9429040443737/
- market-access-eu (green), checked 2026-08-22 TRACES NT, European Commission register of approved establishments (DG SANTE)
- lei-active (green), checked 2026-08-23 GLEIF global LEI register (golden copy)
Claimed certifications
- HACCP
- ISO 22000, Food Safety IAF CertSearch
- Halal Certified
- FSSC 22000, Food Safety System IAF CertSearch
Import rules for these goods
- EU imports of food of animal origin and many other food categories must be pre-notified in TRACES and enter through border control posts. European Commission (TRACES)
- US imports require the foreign facility to be FDA-registered and the importer to run a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). US FDA