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Dimpflmeier Bakery

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in Ontario

Rye and specialty breads, baked at a single stone-oven bakery in Etobicoke since 1957.

Toronto, ON CA · dimpflmeierbakery.com

Found at Loblaws Sobeys Metro Giant Tiger Costco Walmart Whole Foods
97.2

Dimpflmeier Bakery is a family-founded German-style bakery in Etobicoke, Toronto, that has baked rye and specialty breads in stone ovens with its own Ontario spring water since Alfons Dimpflmeier started it in 1957. No registry or press record of a sale or outside investor was found, so ownership rests on the vendor's own founder story and a Canadian-owned directory listing. Its where-to-buy page and retailer search pages confirm it on shelf at Loblaws, Sobeys, Metro, Costco, Walmart, Whole Foods and Giant Tiger banners.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's own history page credits Alfons Dimpflmeier, a German-trained master baker, with founding the bakery in 1957 and names no successor owner, parent company, or investor; the business still trades under the Dimpflmeier name from the same Toronto site. Corporations Canada's federal search returned zero results for "Dimpflmeier", so it is provincially incorporated and the Ontario Business Registry (blocked to automation) could not be checked for current shareholders; no acquisition or private-equity press coverage was found. The independent madeinca.ca directory also lists it as Canadian owned.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

All bread is baked in stone ovens at the company's single Toronto (Etobicoke) bakery, which also operates as its factory outlet and cafe; no other production site is mentioned anywhere on the site.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Single-site business headquartered and operating entirely out of Toronto (Etobicoke); no other office, plant, or staff location is named anywhere on the site.

Inputs

81.5 inferred

CA 80% · other 15% · US 5%

Product ingredient lists are dominated by wheat and rye flour and the bakery's own artesian spring water from Terra Cotta, Ontario, both plausibly Canadian given Ontario's grain and dairy base, but no product page states a country of origin for the flour itself. Minor ingredients on some loaves (brown sugar, molasses) are cane-derived and typically imported, and the mold-inhibitor and stabilizer additives are unspecified in origin, so the split is our estimate rather than a vendor claim.

  • Bauernbrot Farmers Rye Bread – Dimpflmeier Bakery vendor_statement “Ingredients: Enriched Wheat Flour (Unbleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Spring Water, Sour Dough (Rye Flour, Spring Water and Bacterial Culture), Rye Flour, Yeast, Salt, Dry Cultured Whey (Milk).”
  • 100% Whole Wheat Bread – Dimpflmeier Bakery vendor_statement “Whole Wheat Flour, Artesian Spring Water, Wheat Bran, Brown Sugar, Non GMO Canola Oil, Yeast, Sea Salt, Molasses, Wheat Gluten, Calcium Propionate, Mono and Diglycerides, Mold Inhibitor”
  • Our Story... – Dimpflmeier Bakery vendor_statement “Alfons Dimpflmeier to purchase his own soft-water spring in the unspoiled country side of Terra Cotta, Ontario.”

Where to buy

Grocers

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