Category Archives: flashlights
Put Some Power In Your Clicks
Google news alerts served up this article today about a new Duracell program to distribute flashlights and batteries to fire departments. Duracell’s “Hours of Power” program will make donations to fire departments in New York, Chicago, Knoxville Tenn., Springfield Mo. … Continue reading
I Doubt If This Is Going To Solve The Energy Crisis
Duracell is getting lots of press for their promotional stunt of using a bunch of bicycle-powered generators to power the 2009 sign that will appear in Times Square on New Years Eve. While this may get Duracell lots of notice … Continue reading
Don’t Forget To Water Your Par Cans
There are lots of very exciting things happening in the development of new lighting technologies. The desire to save energy and use fewer natural resources in lighting manufacturing means that big changes are right around the corner. General Electric is … Continue reading
This Experiment Didn’t Take Long
As the raw material in batteries continues to increase in price, we feel real pressure to try and save customers some money. We’ve steadily watched the cost of alkaline batteries increase, so I like to test non-name brand competition whenever … Continue reading
Duracell Continues Move Towards A Sale
Proctor and Gamble has made a major move towards confirming rumors about the sale of its Duracell division with the announcement that The Blackstone Group has been retained to advise it on finding a buyer. The Duracell brand generates over … Continue reading
A Real Problem
I have written before about counterfeit Duracell batteries, but I had no idea how big the problem really was. Gillette, the division of Proctor & Gamble that makes Duracell Procell batteries is involved in a daily struggle around the world … Continue reading
Why Can’t We Sell MagLites?
After working on it for almost a year, last summer we were finally able to get a dealership for MagLites. I have enjoyed using these flashlights for years (every stagehand has one) and I was confident that the would be … Continue reading
Maybe We Should Sell Car Batteries
You don’t usually think of car batteries as expendables, but it looks like that is changing. An interesting article in this weeks Wall Street Journal talks about how the demands of today’s electronic-laden cars are taking a real toll on … Continue reading
Time To Change That Smoke Detector Battery
Daylight savings time starts this weekend. The clock is being set forward three weeks earlier this year and some confusion is probably in order. One thing you don’t want to be confused about is the need to change your smoke … Continue reading
How Do We Get Rid of These Things?
One of the unfortunate aspects of expendable sales, is they create a lot of waste. Batteries are an important part of modern day life, but it does present a waste issue. Even recycleable batteries must be disposed of once they … Continue reading