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O’Reilly Automotive, Inc., doing business as O’Reilly Auto Parts, is an American auto parts retailer that provides automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment, and accessories to professional service providers and do-it-yourself customers. Founded in 1957 by the O’Reilly family, O'Reilly auto parts operates more than 6,000 ...
On April 1, 2008, O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. signed a deal to acquire all of CSK's common stock for approximately one billion dollars, including $500 million (~$695 million in 2023) of debt. At the time of the announcement, CSK had a total of 1,349 stores in 22 states operating under the brand names Checker Auto Parts, Schuck's Auto Supply ...
In 2014, O'Reilly Media acquired Pearson's stake, making Safari Books Online a wholly owned subsidiary of O'Reilly Media. [10] O'Reilly did a redesign of the site and had success in expanding beyond Safari's core B2C market into the B2B Enterprise market. In 2017, O'Reilly Media announced they were no longer selling books online, including ebooks.
Outside the United States, NAPA operates in Canada through the UAP (United Auto Parts) division of Genuine Parts Company and NAPA Autopro repair facilities in Canada, Mexico and other locations throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. [2] NAPA launched their first store in Australia in 2017. [3]
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Originally a division of Memphis-based wholesale grocer Malone & Hyde, the company was known as Auto Shack. After the sale of the grocery operation to the Fleming Companies of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the name of the company was changed to AutoZone to better reflect the company focus just prior to the company going public.
VIP Tires and Service, previously known as VIP Parts, Tires and Service, before the auto part business segment purchase by O'Reilly Auto Parts in December 2012. [1] Prior to the O'Reilly purchase, VIP was the largest independently owned automotive aftermarket company in New England and the 14th largest in the United States.
The company was joined by Brent Windom, ex-CEO of Uni-Select, Gregory Smith, executive vice president at medical device company Medtronic and Thomas Seboldt, who worked at O'Reilly Automotive. [ 31 ] In August 2024, Advance Auto Parts announced it had sold Worldpac to the investment firm Carlyle for $1.5 billion. [ 32 ]