Given Herb Doman’s place in B.C.’s business pantheon as a self-made lumber baron, one can be forgiven for thinking Doman Building Materials Group (TSX:DBM) is a surviving part of the same Doman family empire.
In reality, it’s not.
Amar Doman, 53, founder and CEO of Doman Building Materials and owner of the BC Lions, is indeed part of the famed Doman family. He is the nephew of Herb and Gordon Doman, and son of Ted Doman—brothers who together built Doman Industries on Vancouver Island into a billion-dollar lumber business.
But while Doman Industries ultimately collapsed, the business empire being built by a member of the family’s second generation continues
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