On August 27, 2020, William T. Giles, Executive Vice President, Finance, Information Technology and Store Development, Customer Satisfaction, notified AutoZone, Inc. of his intention to retire, effective December 31, 2020. The Board of Directors of the Company intends to appoint Jamere Jackson as Executive Vice President, effective September 14, 2020, and Executive Vice President, Finance and Store Development, Customer Satisfaction, effective January 1, 2021. The Company also announced the retirement of Bill Hackney, Senior Vice President, Merchandising, Customer Satisfaction, effective December 31, 2020. Seong Ohm will join as Senior Vice President, Merchandising. Jamere will come to AutoZone from Hertz Global Holdings, Inc. where he was most recently Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Seong will join AutoZone from the Dairy Farm Group, where she was the Group Commercial Development Officer. Seong will report to Mark Finestone, Executive Vice President, Merchandising, Marketing, Supply Chain and E-Commerce. Jamere will report to Bill Rhodes. Both will be members of the Company's Executive Committee.
AutoZone, Inc. specializes in distributing automotive spare parts and accessories. The group offers compressors, batteries, carburetors, clutches, des rotors, des motors, fuel pumps, etc. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- retail and professional distribution (98.2%): sale of spare parts primarily to garages and service stations;
- other (1.8%): sales of diagnostic and maintenance software (name Alldata), and an e-commerce division.
At the end of August 2023, AutoZone, Inc. had a network of 7,140 stores located in the United States and Puerto Rico (6,300), Mexico (740) and Brazil (100).