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The Jim Pattison Group is headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Canada and is comprised of over 431 locations world wide focusing on the automotive, media, packaging, food sales and distribution, magazine distribution, entertainment, export and financial industries. With sales of over $6.7 Billion in 2009 and more than 31,000 employees, the Jim Pattison Group is the third largest private company in Canada.

The mandate of the Jim Pattison Group is total customer satisfaction and that goal continues to enable the individual divisions of the Jim Pattison Group to become leaders in their markets.

We hope that this website will provide our customers, employees, financial partners, and suppliers with a better picture of the depth and breadth of The Jim Pattison Group.  The site is also designed to provide direct access to our divisions through links to their individual websites.

The Jim Pattison Group Auto Dealerships

History

1961

  • Jim Pattison acquired a Pontiac Buick dealership in Vancouver
  • Started Jim Pattison Lease

Employees: 51  Sales: $2.2 million

1965

  • Awarded license to operate Vancouver AM radio station CJOR

1967

  • Acquired Neon Products of Vancouver
  • Acquired 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

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 in Texas
  • Acquired St. Augustine Sightseeing Trains in Florida
  • Acquired Maltese Signs, Norcross, GA
  • Acquired auto lease business of Cross-Canada Car Leasing Ltd, 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 Vancouver 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
  • Creative Outdoor Ads, Halifax, NS
  • Island Radio Ltd.'s six FM stations on Vancouver Island, BC
  • OK Radio Group Ltd.'s two FM stations in Victoria, BC
  • A&W Fixtures, Cocoa, FL
  • Started Great Pacific Bank Limited, Warrens, Barbados

 

Employees: 29,000  Sales: $6.3 billion

2007

  • Formed strategic alliance between Canadian Fishing Company and Ocean Fisheries Ltd., Vancouver, BC
  • Acquired Downtown Toyota, West Least and Hino Truck Sales, Vancouver, BC
  • The equipment and customer lists of CCL Container, the marker division of CCL Industries Ltd.
  • The assets of Art Batty Enterprise Inc. (Lethbridge), Signtech, and The Billboard People, outdoor advertising companies in Alberta and BC.

2008

  • Acquired Guinness World Records, London, England
  • Acquired various out-of-home advertising companies, including GRP Media in Barrie, ON, Price Media, North Bay, ON , GET Outdoor, Penticton, BC and Sign Face Systems, Thunder Bay, ON
  • Acquired the collapsible aluminum tube, injected molded cap business and related assets of IntraPac Inc., Harrisonburg, VA
  • Acquired radio station CKIZ-FM in Vernon, BC
  • Acquired the specialty periodical distribution business of Time Media Direct Inc., New York, NY.