John A. Catsimatidis (born September 7, 1948) is an American
billionaire
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businessman and
radio talk show
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host. He is the owner, president, chairman, and
CEO of
Gristedes Foods, a grocery chain in
Manhattan
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, and the Red Apple Group, a real estate and aviation company with about $2 billion in holdings in
New York,
Florida
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and
Pennsylvania
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.
He is also the chairman and CEO of the Red Apple Group subsidiary
United Refining Company.
Every Sunday morning Catsimatidis hosts the
talk-radio show ''The Cats Roundtable'', on
WABC radio. He also hosts the ''Cats at Night'' podcast on the same radio; from Monday to Friday. In 2019 he acquired WABC.
Catsimatidis was the