Jim Pattison
Vancouver, Canada
Canada
Jim Pattison Group
diversified, Self Made
$5,600,000,000
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#272 Billionaires 2019
Jim Pattison oversees a sprawling group that operates 25 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 40% of publicly-traded forest products company Canfor.His entertainment division includes Great Wolf Lodge, Guinness World Records and the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! chain.
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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