Jim Pattison Group

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The Jim Pattison Group is Canada's 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 39,000 employees, and annual sales of $8.4 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, automotive dealerships, grocery store chains, magazine distribution, food service specialty packaging, advertising, real estate development, fishing, forest products, financial services, and entertainment.

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History

The Jim Pattison Group began on May 8, 1961 when 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
• 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 (BC.) 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
  • Acquired Creative Outdoor Ads, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Acquired Island Radio Ltd.'s six FM stations on Vancouver Island
  • Acquired OK Radio Group Ltd.'s two FM stations in Victoria, BC
  • Acquired A&W Fixtures, Cocoa, Florida
  • Started Great Pacific Bank Limited, Warrens, Barbados
• 2007 - Disposed of interest in the Vancouver 24 Hours
• 2008 - Acquired Guinness World Records from HIT Entertainment
• 2010 - Acquired Amc Billboard Co
• 2011 - Acquired Ocean Brands

October 29, 2013, Pattison became an insider of the Just Energy Group Inc. (http://www.justenergy.com/about-us/just-energy-group(TM)/), a publicly traded corporation on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange, by taking possession of more than 14 million shares (over 10% of the company's shares outstanding).

• 2013 - Acquired Sun-Rype Products Ltd.
• 2014* Purchased 5 John Deere Dealerships in Saskatchewan.
• 2015 - Employees: 39,000 Sales: $8.2 billion
• 2015 - Purchased Peterbilt Pacific Dealerships
• 2017 - Amalgamated JayDee AGTECH and Maple Farm Equipment John Deere Dealerships as one company, Pattison Agriculture with 17 locations across Saskatchewan and Manitoba
• 2017 - Took controlling interest (March 23, 2017) of Quality Foods with 13 locations across Vancouver Island, British Columbia
• 2017 - Acquired Choices Markets from the Lockhart family to be operated as a division of Buy-Low Foods LP

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Divisions

Some of the more significant divisions of the Jim Pattison Group include:

Illuminated Signs

• Pattison Sign Group

The Jim Pattison Food Group

• The Overwaitea Food Group
  • Bulkley Valley Wholesale
  • Coopers Foods
  • Everything Wine
  • More Rewards
  • Overwaitea Foods
  • PriceSmart Foods
  • Save-On-Foods
  • Urban Fare
• Buy-Low Foods LP
  • Choices Markets
  • Nesters Markets
  • Meinhardt Fine Foods
• Canadian Fishing Company
• Quality Foods

The Jim Pattison Media Group

• The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group

Television Stations

• Kamloops, British Columbia - CFJC, City affiliate
• Medicine Hat, Alberta - CHAT, City affiliate
• Prince George, British Columbia - CKPG, City affiliate

Radio Stations

• Calgary, Alberta - CKWD-FM, CKCE-FM
• Courtenay/Comox/Campbell River, British Columbia - CKLR-FM
• Cranbrook, British Columbia - CHBZ-FM, CHDR-FM
• Drayton Valley/Rocky Mountain House, Alberta - CIBW-FM, CHBW-FM
• Edmonton, Alberta - CIUP-FM, CKNO-FM
• Fernie, British Columbia - CJDR-FM
• Grande Prairie, Alberta - CJXX-FM, CIKT-FM
• Kamloops, British Columbia - CKBZ-FM, CIFM-FM
• Kelowna, British Columbia - CKQQ-FM, CKLZ-FM
• Lethbridge, Alberta - CHLB-FM, CJBZ-FM
• Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan - CJNS-FM
• Medicine Hat, Alberta - CHAT-FM, CFMY-FM
• Nanaimo, British Columbia - CHWF-FM, CKWV-FM
• North Battleford, Saskatchewan - CJNB, CJCQ-FM, CJHD-FM
• Parksville/Qualicum Beach, British Columbia - CHPQ-FM, CIBH-FM
• Port Alberni, British Columbia - CJAV-FM
• Prince Albert, Saskatchewan - CFMM-FM, CHQX-FM, CKBI
• Prince George, British Columbia - CKDV-FM, CKKN-FM
• Red Deer, Alberta - CHUB-FM, CFDV-FM
• Selkirk, Manitoba - CFQX-FM
• Vancouver, British Columbia - CJJR-FM, CKPK-FM
• Vernon, British Columbia - CKIZ-FM
• Victoria, British Columbia - CJZN-FM, CKKQ-FM
• Winnipeg, Manitoba - CHIQ-FM, CFQX-FM

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

• The News Group, North America's second largest newspaper and magazine distributor.
• Select Media Services

Entertainment

• Ripley Entertainment - Owners of the Ripley's Believe It or Not! franchise
• Guinness World Records

Automotive Group

The Jim Pattison Auto Group

Dealerships

• Audi Edmonton North
• Jim Pattison Chrysler Jeep Dodge Surrey
• Jim Pattison Hyundai Coquitlam
• Jim Pattison Hyundai Nanaimo
• Jim Pattison Hyundai Northshore
• Jim Pattison Hyundai Surrey
• Jim Pattison Lexus Northshore
• Jim Pattison Lexus Victoria
• Jim Pattison Subaru Coquitlam
• Jim Pattison Subaru Northshore
• Jim Pattison Subaru Winnipeg
• Jim Pattison Subaru Victoria
• Jim Pattison Toyota Downtown
• Jim Pattison Toyota Northshore
• Jim Pattison Toyota Surrey
• Jim Pattison Toyota Victoria
• Jim Pattison Toyota Duncan
• Jim Pattison Volkswagen Surrey
• Jim Pattison Volvo of North Vancouver
• Jim Pattison Volvo of Surrey
• Jim Pattison Volvo of Victoria
• Frontier Subaru Winnipeg
• Frontier Toyota Winnipeg

Bodyshops

• Jim Pattison Auto Body & Glass Surrey
• Jim Pattison Toyota-Surrey Auto Body & Glass
• Frontier Autobody

Jim Pattison Lease

• Canada's largest privately owned fleet management and leasing company.

The Jim Pattison Packaging Group

• Genpak - 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, marker tubes, and rigid aluminum aerosol cans

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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References

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External links

• Jim Pattison Group
• Jim Pattison Auto Group
• CRTC chart of Jim Pattison Group's broadcast assets
• Jim Pattison Group at the Canadian Communications Foundation website

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