Genuine Parts Company
Global distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts, serving retail, commercial and industrial customers worldwide through NAPA, Motion Industries, UAP and Alliance Automotive Group.
Genuine Parts Company is a global distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts, serving retail, commercial and industrial customers through brands including NAPA, Motion Industries, UAP and Alliance Automotive Group. Founded in 1928 with a single auto parts store in Atlanta, the company is a Fortune 500 business and describes itself as the largest global auto parts distributor, with combined turnover exceeding $15 billion and operations across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Australasia.
Its Automotive Parts Group distributes approximately 800,000 different replacement parts through nearly 6,000 NAPA Auto Parts stores in the United States. The Industrial Parts Group, operating as Motion Industries, provides access to more than 18 million replacement parts to over 190,000 MRO and OEM customers across a range of industries. UAP covers automotive distribution in Canada, while Alliance Automotive Group serves European markets.
Technical work centres on automotive and industrial parts distribution, MRO and OEM supply, supply chain and distribution logistics, and value-added parts solutions. The company reports 70 consecutive years of dividend increases and has set out a plan for 2026 to separate into two independent publicly traded companies.