California Canners and Growers

Summary

Business	Cannery
Active	1958 - 1984
Aliases	Cal Can
Predecessors	Filice and Perelli, Richmond Chase, Thornton Canning, San Jose Canning Company
Successors	Tri-Valley Growers

Large California canner, formed in 1958 from the merger of several smaller canning companies. The founding companies included Filice and Perelli, Richmond Chase, Thornton Canning, and San Jose Canning Company. Subsidiaries were merged into parent company on June 1, 1963 according . Richmond Chase would bring Burrell Chase as VP, Filice and Perreli, Peter M. Filice; Thornton Cannery, Dale G. Hollenbeck, Schuckl, George Coley. San Jose canning would be separate. They canned 500,000 tons of fruits and vegetables aseason. The separate business named were removed in April 1964.

Joseph Perelli of Filice and Perelli discussed the buyout in an oral history at the Bancroft Library.

The company did a joint venture with Tri-Valley Packing in 1964 to share can-making costs.

Cal Can bought the failed Glorietta Foods cooperative in 1981. According to Jim Zetterquist, "both companies were in trouble and the banks 'tossed a coin' over which company took over the other. All of Cal Cans local plants were shut down and sold off as scrap". Cal Can also got some of Libby's brands at some point.

In 1983, Cal Can declared bankruptcy. They sold the Richmond cannery, and closed the San Jose Canning Company site on Lick Ave.

In 1984, the larger Tri-Valley Growers bought Cal Can.

Locations

Location	Years	Address	Details
Richmond		1200 Harbor Way	Former Filice and Perelli.
San Jose	-~1970	Lick Avenue	Former San Jose Canning Company. Site of Tamien Station, according to old SPINS books. Probably Richmond Chase.
San Jose	~1970	North of Diridon station, east of tracks.	From Dome of Foam.

Photos

Photo of CalCan facility north of Diridon Station

Richmond cannery building