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Jim Pattison: Meet the car salesman who built an empire

At 92 Pattison is a billionaire many times over, and one of Canada's most prolific businessmen

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At 92 Jim Pattison is a billionaire many times over, and still helms — as chief executive and chairman — the company he founded in 1961: the Jim Pattison Group. It would be difficult to find a Canadian entrepreneur with more diverse business holdings. The Jim Pattison Group, owned 100-per cent by Pattison himself, is an umbrella company covering businesses in industries spanning agricultural equipment, signs, packaging, groceries, wine, West Coast fishing, and forestry. He even owns the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! franchise and Guinness World Records. According to Pattison, his group of companies recorded total sales of $12.7 billion in 2020, while employing 51,000 workers, and doing business in 95 countries.

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