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Jim Pattison Group
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| Type |
Private |
| Founded |
Vancouver, British Columbia (1961) |
| Headquarters |
Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Key people |
Jim Pattison, Chairman and CEO |
| Industry |
Media, automotive, packaging, food
sales and distribution, magazine distribution, entertainment,
export and financial industries |
| Products |
Media, Broadcasting, Grocery, Billboards |
| Revenue |
 $6.7 Billion - 2008 |
| Owner(s) |
Jim Pattison |
| Employees |
31,000 2008 |
| Website |
Jim Pattison Official
Homepage |
The Jim Pattison Group is Canada’s third
largest privately held company and, in a recent survey by the Financial Post,
The Jim Pattison Group was ranked as Canada’s 62nd largest company.
Jim Pattison, a Vancouver-based entrepreneur is the
Chairman, President, CEO, and sole owner of the Jim
Pattison Group. The Jim Pattison Group has more than 31,000
employees, and annual sales of $6.7 billion. With investments in
Canada, the U.S., Mexico, Europe, Asia and Australia, The Jim
Pattison Group is involved in a wide variety of industries
including TV and radio stations, car dealerships, grocery store
chains, magazine distribution, food service specialty packaging,
advertising, real estate development, fishing, forest products,
financial services, and entertainment.
History
The Jim Pattison Group began on May 8, 1961 when Mr. Pattison
purchased a General Motors automobile dealership by
borrowing $40,000 from the Royal Bank of Canada, and placing
his home and life insurance policy with the bank as collateral. Acquisitions in
subsequent years included the following:
- 1965 - Awarded license to operate Vancouver AM radio station CJOR
- 1967 - Acquired Neon Products (Vancouver) & Seaboard
Outdoor Advertising
- 1968 - Acquired Overwaitea Foods (Vancouver)
- 1969 - Acquired Provincial News (Edmonton)
- Employees: 2,500 Sales: $100 million
- 1980 - Started Jim Pattison Real Estate Group
- Employees: 6,000 Sales: $500 million
- Purchased Beautiful British Columbia
Magazine
- 1984 - Acquired Canadian Fishing Company
- 1985 - Acquired Ripley's Believe It or Not!
- Employees: 6,000 Sales: $1 billion
- 1990 - Acquired the Foodservice Packaging Group
- Acquired the Flexible Packaging Group
- Acquired Coroplast and Montebello Packaging
- Employees: 10,000 Sales: $2 billion
- 1991 - Started Jim Pattison Trade Group
- Started Financial Services division
- 1994 - Acquired Westshore Terminals, a BC-based coal-export
terminal facility
- Employees: 15,000 Sales: $3 billion
- 1995 - Acquired Buy-Low Foods
- 1997 - Started Select Media Services
- Opened Ripley's Aquarium, Myrtle Beach, SC
- 1999 - Acquired Cooper's Foods
- Employees: 20,000 Sales: $4.4 billion
- 2000 - Opened Ripley's Aquarium of The Smokies, Gatlinburg, TN
- Employees: 22,000 Sales: $4.6 billion
- 2001 - Acquired Monarch
Broadcasting
- Acquired Van-Whole Produce
- Employees: 24,000 Sales: $5 billion
- 2002 - Started ProLogix Distribution Services and AccuLogix
Distribution Services
- Acquired Ever Corp.
- Employees: 25,000 Sales: $5.2 billion
- 2003 - Acquired LIN PAC Inc.
- Employees: 26,000 Sales: $5.5 billion
- 2004 - Acquired Classic Attractions (Texas)
- Acquired St. Augustine Sightseeing Trains (Florida)
- Acquired Maltese Signs (Norcross, GA)
- Acquired auto lease business of Cross-Canada Car Leasing
Limited (Toronto, ON)
- Acquired periodical distribution companies in San Jose and
Chico, CA
- Employees: 27,000 Sales: $5.7 billion
- 2005 - Acquired control of Icicle Seafoods (B.C.) Inc.
- Acquired Freeway Dodge Chrysler
- Acquired Spartech Corporation’s corrugated plastic sheet
business
- Started the Vancouver edition of 24 Hours (in partnership with Quebecor
Media)
- Formed or purchased interests in several US and Canadian joint
ventures in the periodical industry
- Employees: 28,000 Sales: $6.1 billion
- 2006 - Acquired Carthage Cup, Carthage, TX
- 2007 - Disposed of interest in the Vancouver 24
Hours
- 2008 - Acquired Guinness World Records from HIT Entertainment
Divisions
Some of the more significant divisions of the Jim Pattison Group
include:
Illuminated
Signs
The
Jim Pattison Food Group
The
Jim Pattison Media Group
Television
Stations
Radio
Stations
- Courtenay/Comox/Campbell River, British
Columbia - CKLR
- Cranbrook, British Columbia
- CHBZ, CHDR
- Drayton Valley/Rocky Mountain House,
Alberta - CIBW, CHBW
- Fernie, British Columbia - CJDR
- Grande Prairie, Alberta - CJXX
- Kamloops, British
Columbia - CKBZ, CIFM
- Kelowna, British
Columbia - CKOV, CKLZ
- Lethbridge, Alberta - CHLB, CJBZ
- Medicine Hat,
Alberta - CHAT, CFMY
- Nanaimo, British
Columbia - CHWF, CKWV
- Parksville/Qualicum Beach, British
Columbia - CHPQ, CIBH
- Port Alberni, British
Columbia - CJAV
- Prince George, British
Columbia - CKDV, CKKN
- Red
Deer, Alberta - CHUB, CFDV
- Vancouver, British
Columbia - CJJR, CKPK
- Victoria, British Columbia -
CJZN, CKKQ
Other
media properties
- Pattison Outdoor
Advertising - the largest domestic Out-of-Home advertising
company in Canada, with a 41% market share of all traditional
out-of-home advertising displays
Periodical Distribution
Entertainment
Automotive
Group
The Jim Pattison Packaging
Group
- Genpak- an independent supplier of disposable
food service packaging in the US and Canada.
- Coroplast - manufacturer and marketer of
corrugated plastic sheet for the graphics and re-usable packaging
industries
- Montebello Packaging - manufacturer of
collapsible aluminum and laminate tubes and ink markers
Export and Financial
Services
- Westshore Terminals - Canadian coal export
facility and the largest dry bulk terminal on the West Coast of the
Americas
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