page_title: John Catsimatidis
hierarchical_section_title: John Catsimatidis
caption_attribution_description: English: photo of John Catsimatidis, Owner of the Red Apple Group (supermarket chain) and various oil companies, NYC
context_page_description: John A. Catsimatidis is an American billionaire businessman and radio talk show host. He is the owner, president, chairman, and CEO of Gristedes Foods, the largest grocery chain in Manhattan, and the Red Apple Group, a real estate and aviation company with about $2 billion in holdings in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania. He is also the chairman and CEO of the Red Apple Group subsidiary United Refining Company. He hosts a Sunday morning talk-radio show on a number of stations along the east coast and Florida, including Washington DC, and hosts a live radio program which airs Wednesdays during drive time in the New York City metro area, and entered radio station ownership in 2019 with his acquisition of WABC in New York City. Catsimatidis was the runner-up to the Republican nomination for mayor of New York City in the 2013 election.
context_section_description: John A. Catsimatidis (born September 7, 1948) is an American billionaire businessman and radio talk show host. He is the owner, president, chairman, and CEO of Gristedes Foods, the largest grocery chain in Manhattan, and the Red Apple Group, a real estate and aviation company with about $2 billion in holdings in New York, Florida and Pennsylvania. He is also the chairman and CEO of the Red Apple Group subsidiary United Refining Company. He hosts a Sunday morning talk-radio show on a number of stations along the east coast and Florida, including Washington DC, and hosts a live radio program which airs Wednesdays during drive time in the New York City metro area, and entered radio station ownership in 2019 with his acquisition of WABC (AM) in New York City. Catsimatidis was the runner-up to the Republican nomination for mayor of New York City in the 2013 election.
caption: Catsimatidis on September 21, 2011
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