Name that company

I trace my roots back to 1979, when the Auto Shack store opened in Forrest City, Arkansas. I got my current name in 1987 and debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in 1991. (My shares have risen in value more than 150-fold since then.) Today, based in Memphis, Tennessee, and with a market value recently near $27 billion, I’m a premier retailer and distributor of automotive replacement parts and vehicular accessories. I boast more than 6,000 stores in the U.S., Mexico and Brazil and I employ more than 85,000 workers on four continents. Who am I?

Last week’s trivia answer

I began in 1919, when my founder bought a hotel in Cisco, Texas, instead of the bank he’d planned to buy. In 1943, I already had hotels in California; buying New York’s Roosevelt and Plaza hotels, I became the country’s first coast-to-coast hotel chain. Today, with brands including Conrad, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hampton Inn, Homewood Suites and Waldorf Astoria, I encompass more than 6,100 properties with more than 971,000 rooms in 119 countries and territories. Brownies were invented, in 1893, at a Chicago hotel that later became one of my properties. I pioneered the airport hotel concept, too. Who am I? (Answer: Hilton Worldwide)