Nielsen Packing Co
| Business |
Cannery |
|---|---|
| Main Location |
Oakland |
| Active |
1923-1937 |
Nielsen Packing was an Oakland-based cannery built in 1923, with its plant on 98th Avenue near an existing Palmolive plant. The plant was going to cost $300,000, and was expected to can 300,000 cans of fruits and tomatoes a year[1]. Officers were Emil H. Nielsen, President; P.A. Nielsen, Vice-President; and Emil H. Nielsen Jr., Secretary. Emil H. Nielsen had formerly been the president of the Golden State Asparagus Company, but sold that business to Western Canning in 1920.
Sutter Cooperative Growers took over the plant in 1925 [2], and installed F. E. Laney (formerly of Sunlit Fruit Company and Virden Packing as manager.
The company was still in existence in 1929 under the leadership of Emil H. Nielsen, Jr.[3].
Locations
| Location | Years | Address | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakland | 1923 | 98th Avenue |
Next to Palmolive Plant. |
References
- ↑ Nielsen Packing to Build Large Cannery In Oakland: February 1923 Western Canner and Packer
- ↑ Canning Co. To Be Established in Oakland: May 24, 1925 Oakland Tribune. "Sutter Cooperative Growers Take Over Nielsen PackIng Plant in Oakland; F. E. Laney Heads Company. Announcement that the Sutter Co-operative Growers, a co-operative association of canning peach growers in Sutter and Yuba counties. have taken over the plant of the Nielsen Packing Company In Oakland, was made during the last week, and has created widespread interest in East Bay industrial and financial circles. The organization is headed by F. E. Laney as president. Laney has been engaged in the canning business for the past twenty years, leaving been actively associated trith the Sunlit Fruit Company up 'to the time the latter was absorbed bv the California Packing Corporation, following which he was for several seasons associated with the Virden Canning company as general manager."
- ↑ 1929 Polk's San Francisco City Directory, p. 1134