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For the baseball player, see Jimmy Pattison (baseball).
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Jim Pattison, June, 2007.

James Allen "Jim" Pattison, CM, OBC (born October 1, 1928) is a Vancouver-based entrepreneur who is the chairman, president, CEO, and sole owner of the Jim Pattison Group.

Life and career

Pattison was born in Saskatoon,[1] Saskatchewan. His company, the third largest privately held company in Canada[2] owns numerous car dealerships, Overwaitea Foods and Save-On-Foods, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, and radio & TV stations in British Columbia and Alberta. He also owned the Vancouver Blazers of the World Hockey Association. Pattison helped organize Expo 86 in Vancouver, acting as the CEO and president of the Expo 86 Corporation. He was involved with the committee for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. On February 15, 2008, Jim Pattison Group announced the purchase of the GWR organization, the company known for its Guinness World Records franchise. Aptly enough, its annual book, published in more than 100 countries in 37 languages, is the world's best-selling copyrighted book.

Among other honours, Pattison is a recipient of both the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. He was also listed as No. 178 on the 2008 Forbes list of the world's richest people.[3] He is also listed as the 4th richest Canadian.[4]

Pattison, who owns approximately 30% of the shares of Canfor, was recently in a dispute over governance with money manager Stephen A. Jarislowsky, whose firm owned 18%. Pattison won and ousted CEO Jim Shepherd over Canfor's poor performance and declining share price, replacing him for the interim with Jim Shepard.[5]

On April 16, 2009 Jim Pattison announced that Save-On Foods has donated $100,000 to CBC Television in order to rent high definition trucks for away games during the Vancouver Canucks' 2009 1st round NHL playoff series versus the St. Louis Blues. Prior to this donation, CBC stated that it would not broadcast HD away games in St. Louis due to the cost of renting high definition equipment during the current tough economic times and major cuts to funding for the CBC by the federal government.[6]

Further reading

  • Jimmy: An Autobiography by Jim Pattison and Paul Grescoe (1987)
  • Pattison: Portrait of a capitalist superstar by Russell Kelly (Nov 1986)
  • Jim: Biography of his life by Jim Dowd (Nov 1998)

He married his childhood sweetheart, and together they have three children.

One of his daughters was kidnapped in 1990 and spent 13 hours in captivity before Pattison paid a $200,000 ransom for her release. The headlines of the next day said "Two boys aged 16 and 17 kidnapped Cynthia Kilburn, the daughter of billionaire industrialist Jim Pattison, from her North Vancouver home."

His grandchildren are: Alicia Rose Mack, Jenny Anne Mack, Jake Andrew Mack, Ashley Brooke Mack, Corbin Drew Fayson, Samantha Grace Fayson, Sierra Nicole Fayson, Gregor Samuel Fayson and Amanda Faith Fayson.

See also

Multimedia

References

  1. ^ The Horatio Alger Association
  2. ^ University of Alberta School of Business
  3. ^ Forbes
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=fb5f68f1-5946-4b46-8a1b-6428db31d1d7
  6. ^ "Hockey Night in Canada gives Vancouver the Bird", Vancouver Province, April 16, 2009.
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