Alfred Nickles Bakery Incorporated he founded, Alfred Nickles Bakery, now operates three large-scale bakeries in Ohio, as well as some 40 distribution centers in five Midwestern states (Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia). It runs a fleet of more than 600 delivery trucks. It makes and delivers fresh-baked goods -- bagels, bread, breadsticks, dinner rolls, hoagies, hot dog and hamburger buns, cakes, pastries, sweet rolls, donuts -- to retail food and foodservice operations in the Midwest.