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Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025: FISHER III, ARTHUR ‘BO’
CEO, FISHER AUTO PARTS, STAUNTON
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025: FISHER III, ARTHUR ‘BO’
CEO, FISHER AUTO PARTS, STAUNTON
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Fisher Auto Parts, one of the nation’s largest automotive-parts retailers with about 500 locations, is a family affair. Blair Coiner, Bo Fisher’s grandfather, founded the company in 1929 as a small auto-parts sales concern, and it grew under the leadership of Fisher’s father, Art, who died in 2004.
A James Madison University graduate, the younger Fisher joined the company in 1992 and was serving as president at the time of his father’s death. He was unanimously elected CEO and chairman of the board, and has led the company, which changed its name to Fisher Auto Parts in 1983, to tenfold, debt-free growth in the past two decades. In July, Fisher Auto Parts announced it had acquired Genden Auto Parts, another family business with more than 70 years of service.
Fisher also serves as chairman of Federated Auto Parts, which Art Fisher founded. In that role, he created the Art Fisher Memorial Scholarship program for students in the automotive aftermarket industry and the Art Fisher Memorial Award, which annually honors a member of Federated Auto Parts who has contributed to its success.
