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Dahl: Contract manufacturing for Trader Joe's sustained Nature Bake

Dave Dahl · Dave's Killer Bread: Dave Dahl · Jul 1, 2019 · at 23:00

Dave Dahl, co-founder of Dave's Killer Bread, describes how his brother Glenn kept their family bakery, Nature Bake, alive prior to Dave's release from prison.

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“And somehow they managed to become contract manufacturers of for Trader Joe's, which was really the bread and butter for the business before I got out.”

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The claim, plainly

Before Dave Dahl was released from prison in 2004, contract manufacturing for Trader Joe's was the main source of business sustaining Nature Bake.

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Assessment

The claim asserts that contract manufacturing for Trader Joe's was the primary revenue source sustaining Nature Bake (AVB, Inc.) before Dave Dahl's late-December 2004 release from prison. While documented company profiles corroborate that Nature Bake operated as a regional wholesale bakery with roughly $3 million in annual sales during that era, Trader Joe's enforces strict non-disclosure agreements regarding its private-label co-packers and suppliers. Because pre-2004 supplier agreements for privately held businesses are shielded by confidentiality and absent from independent corporate or journalistic records, the assertion relies entirely on oral testimony and cannot be verified through public records.

Independent business reporting (including Supermarket News, Portland Business Journal, and The Oregonian) documents Nature Bake's pre-2005 wholesale operations but contains no public records or independent verification of a contract manufacturing relationship with Trader Joe's.
Trader Joe's strict non-disclosure policies regarding third-party co-packers and private-label suppliers prevent independent verification of pre-2004 supplier relationships.

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