Ever Ready Co (Great Britain) Ltd

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  • Electrical & electronic engineering Accumulator production

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Traced origins to 1906 when established as British Ever Ready Co Ltd by American Ever Ready Co as its UK importing and selling agency. Sold in 1914. Known as Every Ready Co (Great Britain) Ltd from 1921 by when had UK manufacturing plant. Emerged as UK leader in manufacture of consumer batteries and related products. Public company. Head office sometime Holloway, later Whetstone. Acquired J A Crabtree & Co Ltd, manufacturers of electrical accessories, in 1972. Taken over by Hanson Trust in 1981 and sold by them to Eveready Battery Co Inc of USA in 1992.

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