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In late 1935, the NAPA member companies decided to form their own company to “re-package” parts manufactured by others. The new company would purchase from various manufacturers and redistribute to NAPA warehouses, thus developing NAPA’s own private purchasing company. The NAPA Board of Directors formed the Balkamp Manufacturing Corporation on March 11, 1936 with an initial investment of less than $50,000. The company took its name from the names of two of its early managers, John Baldwin and his assistant, Bob Leerkamp.Balkamp had humble beginnings. With only three employees, the company operated out of 1,000 square feet on the second floor of a small building on Capital Avenue in Indianapolis. By the end of its first five years, the employee count grew to 18 and the operation grew to 8,000 square feet in size. Balkamp has NAPA product Distribution Centers located in Plainfield, Indiana, Greenwood, Mississippi, and Salt Lake City, Utah. These strategically placed operations serve all NAPA Distribution Centers and UAP in Canada. Balkamp can ship to each NAPA DC in less than 48 hours from order receipt to delivery. In addition, Balkamp ships to 17 DC’s twice a week and handles over 1,500 NAPA Auto Parts Store shipments each month.

With its corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, CARQUEST Auto Parts is the premier supplier of replacement products, accessories, supplies and equipment for virtually all makes of automobiles, as well as light and heavy-duty trucks, off-road equipment,buses, recreational vehicles and agricultural equipment. Additionally, it distributes and sell tools, equipment, chemicals, paint and accessories. Beyond the quality and depth of the product lines, CARQUEST leverages innovative technologies and innovative service solutions to provide a range of unmatched, value-added benefits. Designed to provide customers and partners alike with distinct competitive advantages, these services include everything from world-class technical training in the latest repair and maintenance techniques to Internet-based solutions that make CARQUEST easier to do business with.At CARQUEST, customer service is driven by 18,000 teammates who are passionate about delivering excellence in everything they do. This dedication is enhanced by a sophisticated network of distribution centers and advanced, automated inventory, and delivery management technology. CARQUEST always delivers the right products to the right place at the right time.

Commercial Tire is trying to roll out of Les Schwab's shadow. The company offers tires and other auto services at more than 30 locations in Idaho, Oregon, Utah, and Washington, where Les Schwab holds reign as the largest privately owned tire dealer. Serving fleets as well as individual consumers, Commercial Tire also operates several Bandag retread plants. Among the under-car services Commercial Tire provides are alignment, battery installation, and brake repair. The company also offers custom wheels for cars, trucks, and SUVs. Founded in 1968, Commercial Tire is expanding in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West.

CSK Auto likes people who look under their own hoods. The retailer of automotive parts and accessories sells mainly to do-it-yourselfers but also to auto professionals and commercial installers. CSK Auto operates some 1,340 stores in 20-plus mostly western states under the names Checker Auto Parts, Schuck's Auto Supply, Kragen Auto Parts, and Murray's Discount Auto Stores. Kragen Auto Parts runs more than 500 stores, mostly in California; Checker Auto Parts operates about 490 stores throughout the West and Hawaii; and Schucks' some 220 stores are in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, and California. CSK Auto is now a subsidiary of O'Reilly Automotive, which bought it in 2008 for about $500 million, plus debt.

With more than 725 stores in 21 states, Discount Tire Company has grown to become the world's largest independent tire and wheel retailer today. The company was founded in 1960 when founder Bruce T. Halle rented a building on Stadium Boulevard in Ann Arbor, MI. Although the inventory consisted of only six tires (four of which were retreads) and the showroom was not quite the showroom we see today, faith, vision and hard work were then, and still remain, the foundation on which this company has grown and prospered.As with any new start up, Bruce Halle's venture faced numerous challenges - perhaps one of the biggest being that he didn't own an air compressor. Having only six tires and a portable air tank, Halle would race back and forth to a nearby gas station, filling the tires with air as he sold them. Out of necessity, he became a master at inventory turn. In addition to being the only salesman, Bruce Halle was the tire technician, accountant, store computer, sign painter and cleaning crew. Day by day, tire by tire, this one-man operation slowly grew into what is now one of the most recognized names in the industry.

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