Century-old Oakland factory is bought by cereal and grains producer

OAKLAND A century-old factory in West Oakland that has produced an array of grains and other products for decades has been bought by an East Bay cereal products company. The manufacturing hub, located at 1267 14th St. in the Oak Center neighborhood of West Oakland, was bought by an affiliate controlled by California Cereal Products. Oakland-based California Cereal Products paid just under $5.6 million for the factory, documents filed on Nov. 6 with the Alameda County Recorder s Office show. J. Nikima Co., an Oakland-based real estate firm that bought the plant in 1994, sold the factory property to California Cereal. With the exception of a hiatus in 1991 when the plant closed for three years, the factory has operated continuously to produce grains or related items. California Cereal Products reopened the factory in the mid-1990s. We began in 1994 by restoring and retrofitting a historic manufacturing facility in Oakland, California Cereal Products stated in a post on its website. T