What's New

Battery Direct is attending the Clean Atlantic 2010 show, exhibiting Battery Solutions for the Canadian Sanitation Supply Industry. Battery Direct will be located in Booth #2104. 

The Clean Atlantic 2010 show willl be held at the Moncton Coliseum - Exhibition Hall  C on September 29th situated at 377 Killam Drive, Moncton, New Brunswick. For more information, or to receive a registration invite, email lehann.wallace@batterydirect.com

NEWMARKET, ON – Battery Direct Ontario, partnered with the Stored Energy Solutions Standby Power Systems Division, announces their joint expansion to a new location. The new location address for Battery Direct Ontario and Stored Energy Solutions Standby Power Systems is Unit 1, 1210 Kerrisdale Blvd., Newmarket, Ontario L3Y 8Z9.

The Telephone and Fax number have remained the same:

Battery Direct Ontario:
Telephone Number: (905) 954-0900 and Fax Number: (905) 954-1005.

Stored Energy Solutions - Standby Power Systems:
Telephone Number: (905) 895-3483 and Fax number: (905) 954-1005. 

Battery Direct is the leader in design, manufacturing and sales of batteries in Canada. The Stored Energy Solutions Power Division manufactures high integrity battery systems for Mission Critical 3-Phase UPS applications.  The new location provides much needed additional space to meet the growing needs of their clientele. The new location is open Monday through Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm.

KAMLOOPS, BC – Battery Direct, the leader in design, manufacturing and sales of batteries in Canada announces that their Kamloops Branch is celebrating their 25th year in business, serving the Kamloops area. Battery Direct Kamloops has also moved to a new location, a short distance from the previous location. The new location address is 1440 Battle Street, Kamloops BC V2C 2N8. The Telephone and Fax number have remained the same: Telephone Number: (250) 374-8914 | Fax Number: (250) 374-8441.    

This new building will help Battery Direct Kamloops meet the growing needs of their customers, by providing  a better service location with increased accessibility.  The Kamloops Branch is open Monday through Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm and Saturdays from 9:00am to 3:00pm.

Click here to contact the Kamloops Branch at their new location.

Calgary Alberta – Feb 27, 2010 - Battery Direct Inc. announced today that they have been appointed the sole Canadian Master Distributor for Xantrex Commercial Vehicle Products. Through their Stored Energy Solutions Division, Battery Direct Inc. has been a National Distribution Partner with Xantrex for just over 4 years, and has now grown to offer even more comprehensive support and service for Xantrex Mobile and Commercial advanced power electronics across Canada.

Battery Direct Inc. is Canada’s leading Battery and Battery-Related Products Company. With 18 locations across Canada, the SES Mobile and Commercial Power division provides national sales and service of power management products and solutions. The markets that Battery Direct services with the Xantrex Commercial products are:

• manufacturers and fleets of electric vehicles
• marine and recreational vehicles
• emergency vehicles
• heavy duty trucks
• military applications
• transit, and coach
• utility vehicles etc.

With the growth opportunities for the Xantrex Commercial products within these markets, and Battery Direct's National sales focus in these markets, the new Canadian Master Distributor Appointment positions both companies for substantial market growth.

"Battery Direct has been working closely with Xantrex on customer growth and go-to-market strategies to best service our customers with the Mobile Products. After ongoing consultation on our industry drivers and business objectives, we are pleased that the result is a joint action plan to fully service the Canadian marketplace. This partnership is critical for delivering value to our customers," says Shawn Sauer, President, Battery Direct Inc.

About Xantrex Technology Inc.
Xantrex Technology Inc. (www.xantrex.com) a subsidiary of Schneider Electric, is a world leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of advanced power electronic products and systems for the renewable power markets. Xantrex sells product to the market through distributors, OEM's and large system integrators. Xantrex Commercial Vehicle Products has partnered with Battery Direct as the Canadian Master Distributor to further expand the breadth of power management products and related service, offered through the Stored Energy Solutions Division of Battery Direct Inc.

About Battery Direct® Inc. Company
Battery Direct® Inc. (www.batterydirect.com) is an independent industry leader in design, manufacturing, sales and service of batteries and battery related products, headquartered in Calgary, AB, Canada. Battery Direct Inc. has a national distribution network of eighteen factory warehouses across Canada that sells and services batteries and battery related products for all major applications. Battery Direct’s® Stored Energy Solutions® division provides power management products and service to major industry, government and general consumer markets.
 

Calgary AB, For Immediate Release:  National Battery Direct Charity Toque Program Raises much needed funds for Local Charities.

Employees of Battery Direct are taking to the streets throughout December to spread holiday greetings to their customers by donating money to charity as part of their corporate giving program.

Battery Direct Branches across Canada have participated in a charity toque program, with $4 from every toque gifted to their customers is being donated to a local charity. Over $7000 has been raised with the program thus far, and will be distributed to needy charities in the communities where Battery Direct employees live and work.

The Charity Toque donation tally continues to grow from the initial goal of $6800 as Battery Direct customers embrace the idea and have also made additional donations to the local charities in support of the Battery Direct Branch chosen charities.

“We wanted to develop a program that provided a good opportunity to give back to the local communities in which we live and work. We are very pleased with the enthusiasm that our customers have shown in support of our idea, showing the true spirit of community at this time of year,” says Shawn Sauer, President of Battery Direct Inc.

A number of charities have noted that this has been one of the most difficult years on record. A number of charities rely on the generosity of local community members during the fall and winter holiday seasons to manage.

Below is the list of Charitable organizations that will benefit form the program:

British Columbia

• Victoria Hospital Foundation for The Pediatric ICU - www.victoriahf.ca
• Vancouver - Doctors Without Borders www.doctorswithoutborders.org
• Kelowna General Hospital Foundation - www.kghfoundation.com
• Prince George - The Royal Canadian Legion Ladies Auxiliary
• The Kamloops Food Bank - www.kamloopsfoodbank.org

Alberta

• The Alberta Children’s Hospital - www.calgaryhealthregion.ca
• The Calgary Interfaith Food Bank - www.calgaryfoodbank.com
• Edmonton – The Stollery Children’s Hospital www.stollerykids.com
• The Red Deer Food Bank
• The Medicine Hat Food Bank - www.mhfoodbank.com
• The Lethbridge Food Bank - www.lethbridgefoodbank.ca

Saskatchewan

• The Saskatoon Food Bank www.saskatoonfoodbank.org

Manitoba

• Cancer Care Manitoba - www.cancercare.mb.ca

Ontario

• The York Region Food Bank - www.yrfn.ca

Quebec

• Montreal Organization Serving Youth On The Street Bon Dieu dans la rue www.danslarue.org

New Brunswick

• Moncton Youth Residences - www.myrinc.com

About Battery Direct® Inc. Company

Battery Direct® Inc. (www.batterydirect.com) is an independent industry leader in design, manufacturing, sales and service of batteries and battery related products, headquartered in Calgary, AB, Canada. Battery Direct Inc. has a national distribution network of eighteen factory warehouses across Canada that sells and services batteries and battery related products for all major applications. Battery Direct’s® Stored Energy Solutions® division provides power management products and service to major industry, government and general consumer markets.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Calgary Alberta – AUGUST 11, 2009—Battery Direct has added the Cooper Bussmann line of circuit protection and power distribution products.  Battery Direct now offers an even more comprehensive range of transportation power monitoring and management products in Canada.

Cooper Bussmann Transportation Products (CBT) is a leading manufacturer of innovative products focused on safe and reliable power systems in transportation vehicles. Battery Direct Inc. and it’s Stored Energy Solutions Division is Canada’s leading Battery and Battery-Related Products Company. The Cooper Bussmann product portfolio now available to Battery Direct customers, further expands the breadth of power management product offered through the Stored Energy Solutions Division of Battery Direct Inc.

Cooper Bussmann Transportation products, under the Cooper Bussmann and Sure Power brand names, are categorized in three primary areas: Circuit Protection, Power Distribution, and Power Conversion, Monitoring and Management.  Products under the Cooper Bussmann brand name include automatic, manual, and switchable reset circuit breakers, fuses, fuse blocks/fuse panels and holders, power distribution panels, junction blocks, and disconnect switches used in automotive, commercial and recreational vehicles.

Cooper Bussmann plays a key role in developing custom solutions for vehicle power distribution applications. “There are more electrical configurations and power demands than ever before put on the transportation industry. With the addition of the Cooper Bussmann products we will be able to provide cutting edge circuit protection, power distribution, monitoring and management components in our Battery and DC management solutions for our customers,” says Shawn Sauer, President of Battery Direct Inc. 

About Battery Direct® Inc. Company
Battery Direct® Inc. (www.batterydirect.com) is an independent industry leader in design, manufacturing, sales and service of batteries and battery related products, headquartered in Calgary, AB, Canada. Battery Direct Inc. has a national distribution network of eighteen factory warehouses across Canada that sells and services batteries and battery related products for all major applications. Battery Direct’s® Stored Energy Solutions® division provides power management products and service to major industry, government and general consumer markets.

About Cooper Bussmann
Cooper Bussmann is a wholly owned division of Cooper Industries, Inc (NYSE: CBE) and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. With a more than 90-year history of innovation, the company has set the standard for circuit protection in the global market.

Cooper Bussmann manufactures a wide variety of North American and European-styled fuses for the electrical, electronics and transportation industries, plus inductors and transformers for power quality in electronic applications. Cooper Bussmann also offers engineering, training and testing services focused on downtime reduction, workplace safety and Code compliance.

To see the new line of products pleases visit
http://www.bussmann.com/pdf/fdee239d-3e78-4df3-832f-fea4236a26bf.pdf

Press Release Contact:
Lehann Wallace: lehann.wallace@batterydirect.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PulseTech® Products Announces Battery Direct as New Distributor for Canadian Market

SOUTHLAKE, TX—MARCH 27, 2009--PulseTech® Products Corporation announces that Battery Direct® International Inc. has been selected as a new Canadian Distributor to carry the company’s full line of products, including the recently launched Xtreme Charge™ (www.xtremecharge.com) battery charging and maintenance products. As a result all eighteen Battery Direct® locations across Canada start selling PulseTech® products in March 2009.

PulseTech® Products Corporation has made impressive strides in the General Consumer Market in the USA since the launch of its new product line in 2007. To fulfill similar market potential in Canada, a new Distributor agreement has been confirmed between Pulsetech® and Battery Direct® International Inc. With Pulsetech’s® introduction of the next generation Xtreme Charge™ battery products, both companies predict similar market growth in Canada.

Robert “Smokey” White, PulseTech® Products VP of Sales and Marketing says, “This new partnership is a great fit as we share many of the same business values and philosophies. We are excited about the opportunity to partner with Battery Direct® International Inc. and their Stored Energy Solutions® division to gain national product and brand exposure for our battery maintenance and conditioning products throughout Canada.”

PulseTech’s® entire line of “Plug and Play” products are designed to work with all types and sizes of 12-volt lead-acid batteries including flooded, fill and charge, Gel, AGM and Maintenance Free (from less than 10 Ah to over 150 Ah), making their products a natural fit with Battery Direct’s® Stored Energy Solutions® business.
   
About Battery Direct®  Inc. Company
Battery Direct® Inc. (www.batterydirect.com) is an independent industry leader in design, manufacturing, sales and service of batteries and battery related products, headquartered in Calgary, AB, Canada. Battery Direct Inc. has a national distribution network of eighteen factory warehouses across Canada that sells and services batteries and battery related products for all major applications. Battery Direct’s® Stored Energy Solutions® division provides power management products and service to major industry, government and general consumer markets.

About PulseTech® Products Company 
Maximizing battery performance while minimizing battery-related expenses for individuals, companies, fleets and military forces since 1994, PulseTech® offers a full line of products that will help protect the environment from the hazards of lead waste from discarded lead-acid batteries.

In 2007, the company introduced its first Next Generation, five-stage maintenance charger to the mainstream consumer market with Xtreme Charge™, a simple, plug and play system that facilitates safe and ongoing maintenance charging while allowing consumers to enjoy battery performance and service over a lifetime extended by up to 5 times through application of a patented PULSE Technology

PulseTech® Products is committed to reducing the environmental impact through development and distribution of environmentally responsible products. 

PulseTech® Contact: John Bell: prseitz@bellsouth.net | 954-970-3394

Battery Direct® Contact: Shawn Sauer: shawn.sauer@batterydirect.com 

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Battery Direct’s Jay Wallace Discusses Power Inverters in L&MT Magazine

By Rob Fernandez, L&MT Magazine

One of the less obvious effects of rising gasoline prices is on the cost of remote power generation for field crews. Gasoline-powered electric generators have been a popular solution in the past, but the fuel crunch has many fleets considering a competing technology. The benefits of lower fuel use, lower emissions and no noise has made power inverters a growth area as fleet manager’s search for smarter and more efficient mobile power sources.

For fleet purposes, power inverters represent any technology that draws on the DC electrical current of a vehicle’s battery and converts it to AC current to operate electronics and other equipment. Anyone who has ever recharged his or her phone or laptop by plugging it into the cigarette lighter of a car or truck has used this technology.

But power inverters can be taken further to operate even more power-hungry equipment such as power tools, lighting, refrigeration units and even electrofusion welding equipment. As the power demand (measured in watts) increases, the solution requires more complex equipment... Read the entire article at LIGHT & MEDIUM TRUCK MAGAZINE by clicking here.

CALGARY, AB – Battery Direct International Inc. ("Battery Direct" or the "Company") today announced that it has updated the look of its corporate website, www.batterydirect.com, to highlight the innovative look and feel of its full product offering including its Stored Energy Solutions (“SES” ) division at www.storedenergysolutions.com.

In addition to the updated look of the website homepage, the former website www.storedenergysoloutions.com has now come under the same portfolio site of www.batterydirect.com. This provides easier access to the product and service descriptions of the existing Mobile and Commercial and Alternative Energy segments of the SES Division, and also officially launches the new Standby Power Systems product segment for the company.  Standby Power Systems provides mission critical backup power solutions for the wide range of Uninterrupted Power System applications.  To contact the Standby Power Systems personnel, click here.

Another notable content change includes the About Us section of the company website:

• The News section has been reassigned to the About Us section of the website. Offering a free online subscription registration to receive all future news updates about events and updates
• The Corporate Responsibility page has been added to the About Us section to detail the corporate philiosphy of the Company and its SES division products and people.

Another key change is that the navigation of the site had been updated to provide you with immediate information about what is available for you to review under each heading. This will ensure that you obtain the most relevant information to suit your requirements and information needs. If you are having trouble viewing the homepage or navigational links, click here to download the latest flash player.

If you'd like to provide us with your feedback on our new look, please contact us at info@batterydirect.com  

VICTORIA, BC – Battery Direct, the leader in design, manufacturing and sales of batteries in Canada has expanded their Victoria Branch to a new location. Just five minutes from the previous Government Street location, the new location address is 791 Cave Street Victoria, BC V9A 5T6.  

This new location will help Battery Direct Victoria meet the growing needs of their clients, providing better service and increased accessibility.  The Victoria Branch is open Monday through Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm and Saturdays from 9:00am to 3:00pm.

Click here to contact the Victoria Branch at their new location.