IN BRIEF : Cala Foods Sold Twice in 4 Months

For the second time in four months, the 46-year-old San Francisco-based Cala Foods has been sold, it was announced today.

Breco Holding Co., which owns The Boys Markets, Viva Supermarket and Foods Co. Markets in the Los Angeles area, was revealed as the buyer at an undisclosed price.

Breco President George Golleher said he talked with the president of Yucaipa Capital Group, the Claremont-based investment group that bought Cala previously.

Before Yucaipa, the Cala chain was owned first by the Cala family. It had been a leader in the grocery industry and in 1965 it became the first conventional grocery retailer to stay open 24 hours.

Golleher said he had no plans to lay off any of the chain’s 650 employees at its 18 stores in the San Francisco Bay Area, and wants to build new stores and buy additional retail food stores.