Western Auto Supply Companyknown more widely as Western Autowas a specialty retail chain of stores that supplied automobile parts and accessories. It operated approximately 1200 stores across the United States. It was started in 1909 in Kansas City Missouri by George Pepperdine who later founded Pepperdine University.Western Auto was bought by Beneficial Corporation in 1961; Western Auto's management led a leveraged buyout in 1985 leading three years later to a sale to Sears. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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