Overview

Founded in 1928 , the company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

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  and employs 31,700 people. It specializes in replacement parts for cars and other industrial machines and is the parent company of National Automotive Parts Association

National Automotive Parts Association

The National Automotive Parts Association was founded in 1925 to meet America's growing need for an auto parts distribution system. It is a retailers' cooperative that distributes parts to both corporately and independently owned auto parts stores.NAPA's parent company is Genuine Parts Company , ...

 (NAPA). The Automotive Parts Group, the largest division of GPC, distributes over 380,000 products through its 58 NAPA distribution centers located across the United States. J. Hicks Lanier

J. Hicks Lanier

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 is a director.

It also consists of NAPA Canada/UAP Inc., Canada's leading automotive parts distributor, as well as Auto Todo, one of Mexico

Mexico

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's largest automotive aftermarket organizations. Additionally, they operate their heavy vehicle parts distribution business under the name TW Distribution and Traction, and their import parts distribution operations under the name Altrom. Approximately 5,800 NAPA Auto Part stores, around 1,000 of which are company owned, are serviced by the auto parts segment of the company, which accounted for 51% of their profits in 2005..

GPC also consists of the Industrial Parts Group, which operates under the name Motion Industries

Motion Industries

Motion Industries, Inc., headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is the nation's largest distributor of industrial parts. The company was founded in 1972 and has been a subsidiary of Genuine Parts since 1976. Motion Industries provides parts for many companies including Black & Decker, Ford, and GM...

, distributes over three million items from 500 operations located throughout the United States and Canada. Another GPC company is the Office Products group distributes over 50,000 business products from 45 distribution centers across the U.S. and Canada under the name S.P.Richards Company to thousands of office product resellers, including independent dealers, large contract stationers, national office supply superstores, mail order distributors, internet resellers and college bookstores. Another GPC company is the Electrical/Electronic Materials Group - which operates under the name EIS, Inc., one of North America's leading distributors of process materials, production supplies, industrial MRO and value added fabricated parts.