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Genuine Parts Company (GPC) is an American company engaged in the distribution of automotive replacement parts, industrial replacement parts, office products and electrical/electronic materials. GPC serves numerous customers from more than 2,600 operations around the world, and has approximately 48,000 employees. [ 1 ]
Standard Motor Products had its Initial public offering in 1960 [3] and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 1977. [4] [5] [6] In 1963 it entered the wholesale parts market with a new subsidiary, Marathon Parts. [3] Beginning in the late 1960s under Lawrence "Larry" Sills, Fife's grandson, Standard acquired several rival ...
According to a 1994 Bangor Daily News article, the company was "made up of 14 distributing companies operating 64 Carquest Auto Parts Stores throughout the United States" at that time. [1] General Parts was the largest member with General Parts owning 1,400 out of Carquest’s 3,400 auto parts stores across North America by 2011. [5] O.
The division produced plastic parts for American Motors and other industries. The company was sold to Guardian Industries in 1982 and underwent a name change to Guardian Automotive Trim, Inc. It is still in operation. The original factory in Evansville continues to manufacture plastic parts for the OEM and aftermarket automotive industries.
In their earliest advertising copy Devin Enterprises listed a mailing address of P.O. Box 357, Fontana, California.Later on they used a street address of 44500 Sierra Highway, Lancaster, California and later still 10156 Rush, South El Monte, California before moving operations to their most well-known location at 9800 E. Rush Street, El Monte, California.
Before NUMMI, the site was the former Fremont Assembly that General Motors operated between 1962 and 1982. [1] [2] [3] Employees at the Fremont plant [4] were "considered the worst workforce in the automobile industry in the United States," according to a later recounting by a leader of the workers' own union, the United Auto Workers (UAW).
The Nissan Smyrna Assembly Plant was announced on October 31, 1980, for the production of Datsun pickup trucks. [5] The company had also considered two locations in Georgia, but ultimately chose the Tennessee site due to its central location within the U.S. automotive market and the ability to transport parts to the site at a lower cost. [6]
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Texas (TMMTX) is an automobile manufacturing factory in San Antonio, Texas, United States. It is a subsidiary of Toyota Motor North America , itself a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan.