Company Background NAPA, a leader in the automotive industry, was founded in 1925 to provide a system for distributing automotive parts worldwide. The company is traded under the symbol "GPC" in the New York Stock Exchange. Since NAPA and GPC are considered one company, for this analysis we will refer to this GPC and NAPA merger as simply NAPA. NAPA's strength is unrivaled, with 6,000 NAPA AUTO PARTS stores, 69 Distribution Centers, 9,600 affiliated NAPA AutoCare repair facilities, 200,000 parts …showed first 75 words of 1803 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1803 total…GPC/NAPA (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=gpc) , October 2003 Yahoo Finance, GM Parts (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GM), October 2003 Yahoo Finance, AutoZone (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AZO), October 2002 GPC Genuine Parts (http://www.genpt.com/index.shtml), October 2003 E-Commerce in the Canadian Automotive Market, AIA Canada, (http://www.aiacanada.com/downloads/e-Commerce_Report.pdf), January 2003 Automotive Industries Association of Canada (AISC), (http://www.aiacanada.com/downloads/trainingculturereport.pdf), February