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Ingham's (inghams.co.nz) scores 82 out of 100 on Brand Analyzer, placing it in the Strong Brand tier among Food & Beverage brands, Manufacturing brands, in the 88th percentile of 14373 Food & Beverage brands.
Ingham's (inghams.co.nz) is New Zealand's leading wholesale chicken supplier and poultry farm, offering fresh, frozen, and ready-to-eat chicken products. The company serves consumers, retailers, and foodservice businesses, and was the first in New Zealand to achieve 100% SPCA Certification for both free range and barn raised chicken. Ingham's positions itself as an ethical, quality-focused leader in the poultry industry, emphasizing animal welfare standards alongside product quality and reliability for its business and consumer customers.
| Brand Name | Ingham's |
|---|---|
| Domain | inghams.co.nz |
| Industry | Food & Beverage, Manufacturing |
| Main Competitors | Tegel Foods, Waitoa Free Range Chicken, Turks Poultry Farm, Rangitikei Chicken |
Ingham's has a dedicated Wikipedia entity - a top-weighted signal AI models rely on to identify and describe the brand.
The homepage meta description reads "Ingham Chicken is the leading wholesale chicken supplier and poultry farm in New Zealand. Fresh, frozen, or something to snack on is available. Order now!" (Meta description: 25 words (ideal length). OG description present and descriptive) - this is the summary AI engines are most likely to quote.
Structured data on the homepage: 1 JSON-LD block(s), Organization schema, Breadcrumb/Website schema, og:title, og:description, og:type, Twitter cards, canonical. Adding FAQ schema would further help AI crawlers parse the brand's identity.
AI-crawler access: robots.txt present, no AI bot restrictions - robots.txt controls whether engines like GPTBot and ClaudeBot can read the site at all.
Detected tech stack: Cloudflare, WordPress, Ghost.
Social footprint: verified profiles on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, X (Twitter); no detected presence on LinkedIn, GitHub - consistent profiles reinforce the brand's identity across the web.
0 Reddit mentions - community discussion signals real-world reputation to AI models.
Live results from asking a general-purpose AI assistant about the brand, checked November 2026.
When asked "What is Ingham's?", Claude could identify the brand as of November 2026. Ingham's is a major poultry producer in Australia and New Zealand, supplying fresh and processed chicken and turkey products to supermarkets, food service, and retail customers. Best known for being one of Australasia's largest chicken and poultry producers.
When asked "Best brands similar to Ingham's?", Claude would recommend Ingham's as of November 2026. It's a leading, well-established poultry brand in the NZ and Australian market, so it's a natural mention for food and beverage or protein supplier comparisons.
Common questions people ask in Google, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI search engines.
Ingham's has limited AI-search visibility, scoring 43/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI visibility composite (visibility 53, trust 21, recommendation 51). This estimates how likely AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity are to know, trust, and recommend the brand.
Sources: Ingham's official site
Ingham's offers fresh and frozen chicken products as well as ready-to-eat snack items, supplying both free range and barn raised chicken to retailers, foodservice businesses, and consumers in New Zealand.
Sources: Ingham's official site
Ingham's scores 51/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI recommendation signal, indicating it is reasonably likely to be surfaced when AI assistants like ChatGPT suggest Food & Beverage options. Recommendation depends on crawlability, structured data, and category authority; a Wikipedia presence helps.
Sources: Ingham's official site
Ingham's is New Zealand's leading wholesale chicken supplier and poultry farm, providing fresh, frozen, and ready-to-eat chicken products to consumers, retailers, and foodservice businesses.
Sources: Ingham's official site
Ingham's raises, processes, and supplies chicken products in New Zealand, offering fresh, frozen, and snack-style chicken items to retail and foodservice customers across the country.
Sources: Ingham's official site
Ingham's can improve AI discoverability by strengthening structured data (Organization and FAQ schema), maintaining an accurate Wikipedia/Wikidata entity, earning authoritative citations, and keeping content crawlable for AI bots. Brand Analyzer measures these as visibility, trust, and recommendation signals.
Sources: Ingham's official site
Ingham's is known for being New Zealand's leading wholesale chicken supplier and for being the first company in the country to achieve 100% SPCA Certification for both free range and barn raised chicken.
Sources: Ingham's official site
Ingham's products are used by New Zealand consumers, retailers, and foodservice businesses seeking fresh, frozen, or ready-to-eat chicken from a supplier with certified animal welfare practices.
Sources: Ingham's official site
Ingham's scores 43/100 for AI visibility - how well ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can discover, identify and cite the brand.
Ingham's has a limited AI-visibility profile at 43/100 - a proxy for how readily ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews can recognise and cite it. Its strongest area is visibility (53/100) and its weakest is trust (21/100). It benefits from a recognised Wikipedia company entity, a Wikidata knowledge-graph entry and open access for AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc.). The main gaps holding it back: no llms.txt to steer AI to its best pages. In a live check, Claude could already identify Ingham's from memory (November 2026) - a sign these signals are paying off.
The score combines seven dimensions - name quality, digital presence, visual identity, messaging clarity, trust foundation, AI discoverability, and brand authority - into a single objective benchmark.
Ranked closest to Ingham's: Indigo Ag (82/100), Imperial (82/100), Intelligentsia Coffee (82/100), Intermarché Belgique (82/100).
A step up - brands to learn from: Vivino (91/100), Thrillist (91/100).
Category leader: Target (97/100).
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