During february, march, and april months of each year, traditionally had a tomato high offer in the Barranquilla's market, larger than store market could consumes, this fact made that the price of it began to fall, so the production was unable.

Mister Emilio Faillace, an industrialist of Barranquilla town, he watched this situation, and he decided trading the product excess, with this purpose, Emilio left to United States in 1948, there he studied technology of food course and he acquired machinery to make tomato sauce and manufacture metallic containers to keep the product.

In 1950 began the production in Mister Faillace's factory, it was called Compañia Colombiana de Conservas y extractos vegetales ltda, as the primary material only could be getting during three consecutive months in a year and the factory was unproductive during the next nine months of the year, he decided in 1952 to imported fruit concentrated to make fruit can,
he was using the same machinery.

This fact let the industry grow up, and in 1956 with the purpose to enlarge his production and adding new products to the local enviroment he looked for assotiation with W.R. Grace & Co so was borned.

The new society with more financial resources, began with its products line in glass containers ( ketchup, marmalades, pickles) and another can products, like soups, etc., growed up its production and the company was able to be one of the most important preserves companies
of the country.

In the 1963 ends Grace & Cia, bought "Faillace Inversiones" part, and it founded CONSERVAS CALIFORNIA S.A., this company builded more comfortable constructions in the airport way, where was installed the factory of beginings of 1965. With new equipment acquisition the existent products got better and in 1967 began the nectars production in glass containers, inittially with "slip-on" cover and later with crown cover, with these innovations the company could be the nectars fruit sales leader in the country and a very important tomato products producer.

About the middle of 1971, Grace & Cia, decided to left Colombia and sold the enterprise to Nestle, this enterprise with swiss capital. The new company owners installed extra equipment and introduced new products, applying all its technology in the food production.

Nestle bought some equipments to Comestibles La Rosa from Pereira and began to produce marmalades, slice of pineapple and vegetables, increasing its products variety. Nestle exported during some years tropical fruit nectars to United States with the Condal sign.

As an one year only can be three one crop of tomato and tropicals fruit, Nestle had to made its finishing products for all the year, it made the costs affecting the enterprise results so Nestle stopped to produce since august of 1981.

Since march of 1982 began the manufacturing of all the products again (nectars in glass containers, ketchups, chili sauce, bolognesa sauce, etc) Since these age, had been introducing to the market new products and had been building a factory in Santa Fe de Bogota and an industrial complex in the town of Simijaca.

This way, in the present, CONSERVAS CALIFORNIA S.A., has a variety of 125 references
of products, and have the last technology of aseptics packing for food, it means, tetra brink containers wich products are packing ultrapauterizated (fruit nectars 200 and 1000 cc. sizes, pure milk and low fat milk, milk with different flavors produce by the shikiss sign, etc.

The company have been advancing and today it is enough to supply of fruit pulp and fruit concentrated, because it has a modern pulp factory in the industrial complex of Simijaca
where are processing all the fruit that it needs to the production and to the pulps manufacture to export in order to Europe (mango, pienapple, maracuya, etc.).