It's A Wonder! Mesa Bread Bakery Acquired for $120 Million

Alpine Valley Breads at 300 E Southern Avenue, started nineteen years ago by a health-conscience family with young children, had a vision to bake bread that was nutritious, natural, organic, and flavorful.
It's an interesting turn of events and a big change in consumer buying preferences that Flower Foods, the big baked goods distribution conglomerate that acquired the Hostess empire with its brands Twinkles and Wonder Bread for $360 Million in 2013, has recently been on a very big buying spree for bakers of whole grain, natural, nonGmo, organic and kosher-certified bread bakeries: $120 Million for Alpine Valley Breads just a couple of days ago and Dave's Killer Breads for $275 Million last month.



Who knows, in spite of the wide popularity of Wonder Bread [who doesn't remember peanut butter/jelly sandwiches packed in their school lunch boxes?]
The family wanted something else: A bread that was free from artificial ingredients, chemicals and preservatives. Their philosophy was simple; great bread is made with just five carefully selected ingredients, whole grains, salt, yeast, water, and honey.

In 1995 Alpine Valley Bread opened the first bakery in a strip mall in Mesa, Arizona and soon captured a growing local market and loyal customers. Opportunity knocked in 1996, Alpine Valley Breads were now being sold in grocery stores. As demand increased Swiss Oven Bakery joined the Alpine Valley Bread group in 2003. Together, Alpine Valley Bread and Swiss Oven were able to provide the right bakery product to a wide range of customers and still maintain our excellence in quality and service.
Today we are proud to say that after two facility moves from the strip mall, Alpine Valley Breads has flourished to a nation-wide customer base. We are recognized as a leading producer of certified organic and All Natural breads in the United States. We continue to expand into new markets and we have remained true to our beginning philosophy of baking great nutritious, natural, organic, and flavorful breads, from the finest carefully selected ingredients.

[Information from company's website alpinevalley.com]

The company believes in giving back to the community when possible in a big way - over forty organizations benefit from Alpine Valley Breads generous philanthropy as you can see from a list on their site.
Readers might also take notice that the company employs 282 with projected income of $95 Million for 2015 . . .
That's a lot of bread, folks.