Michael Andlauer
Michael Andlauer is a Canadian businessman and ice hockey club owner. He is the founder of businesses ATS Healthcare, Accuristix, Bulldog Capital Partners and Andlauer Healthcare Group.[1] He is the CEO of Andlauer Healthcare Group.[2] He is the owner of the Ottawa Senators National Hockey League (NHL) team, and the Brantford Bulldogs Ontario Hockey League (OHL) team. He was formerly a minority owner of the Montreal Canadiens NHL team.
Andlauer was born in France and grew up in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the neighbourhood of Notre-Dame-de-Grace.[1] Andlauer attended York University in Toronto, but dropped out to take a job at McCain Foods.[1]
In 1991, Andlauer, by now the head of McCain's trucking operations, left the company to launch the Andlauer Transportation Services trucking company, delivering pharmaceutical products. Now known as ATS Healthcare, it now has a fleet of hundreds of vehicles and delivered the COVID-19 vaccine to locations in Canada.[1]
In 2003, Andlauer became part-owner of the Hamilton Bulldogs American Hockey League (AHL) team, the minor-league affiliate of the Montreal Canadiens.[1] He became the majority owner of the team in the following year, and sold the team to the Canadiens in 2015.[1] The Canadiens subsequently relocated the team, and it is now the Laval Rocket. At the same time, he bought the Belleville Bulls Ontario Hockey League junior team and moved them to Hamilton, Ontario, renaming them the Hamilton Bulldogs.
In 2009, Andlauer became a part-owner of the Canadiens, the Bell Centre and Gillett Entertainment Group as part of Geoff Molson's group of investors which purchased the team that year.[1] He would later become the team's alternate governor to the NHL's Board of Governors.[3]
From 2022 through June 2023, Andlauer was one of several prospective purchasers of the Ottawa Senators, put up for sale after the death of its owner, Eugene Melnyk. In June 2023, it was announced that Andlauer and his group of investors had signed a purchase agreement to buy the club at a reported price of US$950 million.[4] Andlauer became majority owner along with his partners, Eugene Melnyk's daughters, and a group of Canadian businessmen on September 21, 2023.[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Duffy, Andrew (June 13, 2023). "Who is new Ottawa Senators owner Michael Andlauer?". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved June 14, 2023.
- ^ "Leadership Team". andlauerhealthcare.com. Andlauer Healthcare Group. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
- ^ The Associated Press (June 13, 2023). "Michael Andlauer reaches agreement to buy NHL's Ottawa Senators". nhl.nbcsports.com. Retrieved June 15, 2023.
- ^ Badenhausen, Kurt; Novy-Williams, Eben; Soshnick, Scott. "NHL's Ottawa Senators to be Sold to Andlauer for Nearly $1 Billion". sportico.com. Retrieved June 14, 2023.
- ^ Garrioch, Bruce (September 21, 2023). "GARRIOCH: It's official! Michael Andlauer is the new owner of the Ottawa Senators". National Post. Retrieved September 21, 2023.