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BATTERY MANUFACTURERS AND BRAND NAMES LIST Bill Darden Last Updated on October 22, 2006 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, EnerSys purchased Hawker,motive deep cycle portion of FIAMM and portions of Yuasa; Johnson Controls acquired the automotive battery portions of Hoppecke, Varta, Bosch, Grupo IMSA and Delphi; and Yuasa and Japan Storage Battery have merged as GS Yuasa. The manufacturers 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