Jim Pattison

Net worth over time

Biography

• Jim Pattison oversees a sprawling group that operates 20 divisions including packaging, food and entertainment.
• Pattison's first business was a GM dealership he bought in 1961.
• The Canadian billionaire also controls more than 50% of publicly-traded forest products company Canfor.
• His entertainment division includes Guinness World Records, the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! chain and Great Wolf Lodge's Canadian franchise rights.
• Pattison bought Frank Sinatra's Palm Springs home four years before the virtuoso died and kept it the way Sinatra had designed and decorated.
• Despite his age, Pattison still goes to work every day, including the weekends.

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