Gunnar Dafgård AB (GDAB) was founded 1937 by Gunnar Dafgård and is

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's largest private food producer with an annual revenue of more than US$300 million. GDAB has customers throughout Europe with the main market being

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. GDAB produces all kinds of foods but the biggest selling products are

Swedish meatballs A meatball is ground meat (mince) rolled into a ball, sometimes along with other ingredients, such as bread crumbs, minced onion, eggs, butter, and seasoning. Meatballs are cooked by frying, baking, steaming, or braising in sauce. There are m ...

pizza Pizza is an Italian cuisine, Italian, specifically Neapolitan cuisine, Neapolitan, dish typically consisting of a flat base of Leavening agent, leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomato, cheese, and other ingredients, baked at a high t ...

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and

ready meal A frozen meal, also called a TV dinner (Canada and US), prepackaged meal, ready-made meal, ready meal (UK), frozen dinner, or microwave meal, is a meal portioned for an individual. A frozen meal in the United States and Canada usually consists ...

s. GDAB's own brands include Billy's Pizza, Familjen Dafgård and Gorby's. Internationally, GDAB is best known for producing the

meatballs A meatball is ground meat (mince) rolled into a ball, sometimes along with other ingredients, such as bread crumbs, minced onion, egg (food), eggs, butter, and seasoning. Meatballs are cooked by frying, baking, steaming, or braising in sauce. ...

for

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in all the European markets.

References

Dafgårds i Källby : Sagan om Gunnar Wickbom, Ulf,

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: GullersBild, 2001, ATL – Lantbrukets Affärstidning. 2012. Lantbruk , Ikeas köttbullar enbart från Dafgårds , ATL – Lantbrukets Affärstidning. NLINEAvailable at: http://www.atl.nu/lantbruk/ikeas-kottbullar-enbart-fran-dafgards. ccessed 4 June 2012

External links

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