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.
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™/), 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).
2014* Purchased 5 John Deere Dealerships in Saskatchewan.
2015 - Employees: 39,000 Sales: $8.2 billion
Some of the more significant divisions of the Jim Pattison Group include:
Pattison Sign Group
The Overwaitea Food Group
Overwaitea Foods
Save-On-Foods
Coopers Foods
PriceSmart Foods
Urban Fare
Bulkleyvalley Foods
Everything Wine
More Rewards
Buy-Low Foods
Nesters Markets
Canadian Fishing Company
The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group
Kamloops, British Columbia - CFJC, City affiliate
Medicine Hat, Alberta - CHAT, City affiliate
Prince George, British Columbia - CKPG, City affiliate
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
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
The News Group, North America's second largest newspaper and magazine distributor.
Select Media Services
Ripley Entertainment - Owners of the Ripley's Believe It or Not! franchise
Guinness World Records
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
Canada's largest privately owned fleet management and leasing company.
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
