EXCLUSIVEBRANDSOURCING RETAILER/WHOLESALER ...

JIM PATTISON GROUP, THE
1067 West Cordova Street, Vancouver, BC V6C 1C7 CANADA
Tel: (604) 688-6764
Fax: (604) 688-2601
www.jimpattison.com
Total Sales: $7.2 Billion (C$ 7.2 Billion) +2.8%
Percentage of Sales in Exclusive Brands; N/A
Principal Business: This company is a conglomerate started by Jim Pattison in 1961 with a single
auto dealership. Today, as the third largest privately owned company in Canada, it claims to
operate 465 locations in 51 countries, mostly in Canada and the United States. Its interests range
from automobiles to media (TV-radio stations), to food packaging, to entertainment, to periodical
distribution, to lumber exports, to advertising, to real estate, etc. For the private brand business,
Jim Pattison operates a huge Food & Beverage Division, which very likely commands more than
half the company’s total revenues. Privately owned, the company does not break out its sales by
divisions. This Division operates Canadian Fishing Co. (Canfisco), a fishing fleet, producing
canned and frozen salmon, tuna and seafood. Canfisco, exporting products to 25 countries, is
Canada’s largest packer of canned salmon. Its own brands include Gold Seal, Tea Rose and other
private labels. The division also operates two packaging firms, Monfitelle, Hawkesburg, ON,
producing food packaging (collapsible aluminum tubes) and Glenpak, Glen Falls, NY, a producer
of rigid and flexible food packaging. Its wholesale distribution and support services are centered in
the Buy-Low Foods operation, a food wholesaler, serving independent retailers: some 1,800
customers—supermarkets, convenience stores, specialty outlets, etc., as well as 24 corporate and
franchised stores under four banners (Buy-Low Foods, Nesters Markets, Shop n’ Save, and
Budget Foods). Part of Buy-Low’s operation also includes the Associated Grocers (AG), founded
in 1927, which provides grocery, frozen, dairy, bakery, meat, and produce products to more than
900 independent grocers in Western Canada. Jim Pattison Group also operates Van-Whole
Produce, Vancouver (Tel: 604-251-3330), providing more than 1,300 produce markets in Canada
with some 400 varieties of perishable fruits and vegetables, sourced from growers in 25 countries.
Finally, the Food & Beverage Division incorporates the Overwaitea Food Group, Langley, BC, a
group of six retail chains, totaling 124 stores, which serves 80+ communities in Western Canada.
They include: 77 Save-On-Foods, 14 Overwaitea Foods, 14 Price Smart Foods, 14 Cooper’s
Foods, 3 Urban Fare (up-market), and 1 Buckley Valley Wholesale. All the food retailers in this
division draw on the portfolio of private labels, supplied by Western Family Foods, Tigard, OR
(also in this database), under the Western Family brand.
EB Identities: Western Family brands: Classics (premium), Organic, Envirowise, Pro-Source,
Homelogix, and Body Zone; Value Priced (economy line), Gold Seal and Tea Rose (seafood), etc.
EB skus: N/A