David Holmes Black
David Holmes Black (born April 9, 1946 in Vancouver ) founded Black Press and is currently the owner.
Life
David Holmes Black is the son of Alan and Adelaide Black and attended school in Toronto where his family had moved. On the College studied Black Engineering and earned a master's degree in business administration. In 1973 he found a job as an analyst with the Toronto Star newspaper . The company sent Black to various locations in North America where they had subsidiaries. During his travels, Black learned about the newspaper trade and eventually became the editor of his own newspaper.
Black Press operates 120 local newspapers, daily newspapers and websites in British Columbia, Alberta, Washington State (Sound Publishing), San Francisco, Hawaii and Akron, Ohio.
Black's first newspaper he acquired was the Williams Lake Tribune in 1975 , which he bought from his father and is still owned by Black Press today. Black's second acquisition was the Ashcroft-Cache Creek Journal . Black Press now owns other flagship local newspapers such as Victoria News , Surrey Leader , Peace Arch News , Kelowna Capital News, and Abbotsford News .
Oil refinery
On August 17, 2012, Black announced that his company Kitimat Clean Ltd would build an oil refinery in Kitimat, BC for $ 13.2 billion. The refinery will refine bitumen and process it into eight different products. However, the refinement of bitumen coming from the Northern Gateway pipeline is not planned, as there is no such agreement between Black and Enbridge. Black also wants to use its own capital (between $ two and three million) for the environmental review.
Private
Black lives in Victoria , British Columbia.
literature
- Jeff Lee: Media mogul David Black knows how to recognize a business opportunity . In: Vancouver Sun . August 17, 2012 ( vancouversun.com ).
Web links
- Don Ward: Betting on David Black. In: Seattle Weekly. July 15, 2008, archived from the original on July 18, 2008 ; Retrieved April 27, 2009 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Black. (No longer available online.) In: Victoria News. vicnews.com, 2012, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Tom Fletcher: $ 13-billion refinery proposed for Kitimat. (No longer available online.) In: BC Local News. Black Press, August 18, 2012; archived from the original January 4, 2014 ; accessed on July 15, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Management - David Black Chairman. blackpress.ca, accessed November 2, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Black, David Holmes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vancouver , Canada |