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BATTERY MANUFACTURERS AND BRAND NAMES LIST

Bill Darden

Last Updated on April 19, 2009

Battery manufacturers, distributors, or large chain stores will often private label their batteries, for example in the U.S., EverStart for Wal*Mart, DieHard for Sears and DuraLast for Auto Zone in the United States. The larger chain stores might have batteries with their private label made by several manufacturers depending on the location to reduce shipping costs or to provide more different types or sized of batteries. Below is a list in alphabetical order of the largest battery manufacturers, joint ventures, distributors, and dealers with some of their brand names, trademarks and private labels; hyperlinks to their Web addresses; and telephone numbers. The manufacturers are in bold type. Ownership, supply contracts, branding, Web addresses and telephone numbers are subject to change. For example:

* Johnson Controls acquired the automotive battery portions of Hoppecke, Varta, Bosch, Grupo IMSA, Delphi, is acquiring the automotive battery portions of Fiamm Group, and engaged in a joint venture with Shaft to manufacture Li-Ion hybrid batteries.

* Yuasa and Japan Storage Battery have merged as GS Yuasa

* EnerSys purchased Hawker, motive deep cycle battery portions of Fiamm Group, portions of Yuasa, and Leclanche SA.

* Douglas Battery is transistioning their automotive battery business into East Penn


The manufacturer's code number will be on the battery and is only sure way of identifying the manufacturer. Ask the dealer who made the battery. In the United States, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS), can provide a useful source of information on the manufacturer of the battery. Manufacturers, joint ventures or distributors will sometimes have lines within a trademark or brand, for example, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Titanium, Premium, Heavy Duty, Commercial, Standard, Plus, Turbo, Calcium, Classic, Maintenance Free, etc., for differentiating quality, features or warranty periods. They will also contract with other manufacturers to build special purpose batteries and batteries to complete their product lines that are not economically feasible to build themselves. A good manufacturers cross reference list for Sealed Lead-Acid (SLA) batteries can be found on the Battery Solutions Web site.

Trademarks, brand names and registrations are owned by their respective companies and are as shown below. Web addresses will often change, so you can use an Internet search tool like http://www.google.com, http://www.yahoo.com/, http://www.findownersearch.com/, etc. to locate the most current information. Other good sources of battery manufactures are BaSyTec's Hyperlink list at http://www.basytec.de/ or the membership list of Associations, Business Directories or Hyperlink Lists found in the Battery References Links List and Battery Information Links List at http://www.batteryfaq.org. Answers to Frequently Asked Questions, (FAQs) and additional information on car, motorcycle, truck, marine, and recreational vehicle starting and deep cycle lead-acid batteries can be found at http://www.batteryfaq.org/.

Tip: Use Ctrl-F to find a manufacturer's or brand name.

For additions, errors or omissions, please e-mail Bill Darden at info@batteryfaq.org.

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Jason said:

Always look around, since none of those places actually make batteries. They are just private labels on someone elses product. Die Hard isn't a manufacturer, only a brand.

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