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Volume Key to Economical GS Battery Stock, says Maxxis

While Maxxis has been making strides as a tyre brand over recent years, the UK company says it continues to meet market demand for “affordable motorcycle and ATV batteries” with GS brand and its own Powerite range. “In excess of 90 GS products are available through Bickers [a division of Maxxis International UK], all of which come with a standard two-year warranty. Understandably, there is a price premium on batteries of this quality, but because we deal in such high volumes it is much less than people might think,” says Maxxis International UK’s managing director Derek McMartin.

3rd September 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Manbat Provides Mobility Scooter Batteries to Aid Medical Research

Cutting-edge research expeditions may not be the first thing to spring to mind when UK battery distributor Manbat’s name is mentioned. However, a group of medical researchers have employed Lucas LG75 batteries supplied by the company to keep vital blood samples at the correct temperature while staying at a hut in the Alps. The Xtreme Alps project is designed to test the effectiveness of a dietary supplement taken to improve the body’s tolerance for lack of oxygen.

3rd September 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Snap-On Introduces New Battery Charger

Snap-on Tools has announced the introduction of its latest, most advanced battery charging system – the EEBC500UK Battery Charger. “The EEBC500UK has many improved features,” says Aldo Rodi, UK managing director of Snap-on Tools, “including a higher working height handle which makes using this battery charger easier on the back compared to other models. It also provides increased efficiency as it has both positive and negative leads which can be replaced in the field and a new handy storage compartment which provides quicker access to optional battery hand tools. We are also offering a minimum £100 trade in on any old chargers, so making the new EEBC500UK even more attractive to garages.”

3rd September 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Avon Tyres Unfurls Backing of Sevenstar Competitor

Motorsport and football sponsorship is commonplace these days, but few tyre makers weigh anchor and take to the seas. Avon Tyres is proving itself no landlubber, however, and is backing an entry in an event many consider to be one of the toughest and most challenging endurance tests in ocean racing, the Sevenstar Round Britain & Ireland Race. Charles Ivill, the managing director of ETB (Exhaust Tyres and Batteries Ltd), and his crew of ten are taking on the challenge, which commences on August 23. Ivill and crew will be pitting their nautical talents against an international fleet of 30 yachts.

23rd August 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Varta Launches Aftermarket Start-Stop Battery Range

From 2012, the EU requires maximum vehicle CO2 emissions levels to be reduced to 130 g/km across Europe. Start-stop technology, also known as micro hybrid technology, is a key part of vehicle manufacturers’ efforts to meet this target. Interest in start-stop has already skyrocketed, and forecasts indicate that 70 per cent of all vehicles produced in Europe by 2015 will feature this technology. Under its Varta brand, Johnson Controls Power Solutions EMEA has developed AGM and EFB batteries it says can meet the demands of this technology, and its Varta Start-Stop Plus and Start-Stop batteries are now ready to be launched to the aftermarket.

9th August 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Manbat Appoints Jon Bailey

Manbat has confirmed that Jon Bailey has joined the company as sales director. Bailey has been in the battery business all of his working life, leaving school in 1980 to work in a small auto electrical battery distribution business in south Manchester. In the late 80’s he joined the then importer of Banner batteries, managing their Northern Branch operations, before moving to VB Automotive in 1998. Working with both the Bosch and Varta brands, Bailey was instrumental in developing sales and latterly battery recycling projects and strategies.

19th July 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Manbat Reaches Out To The Tyre Trade

Manbat is exhibiting at Brityrex 2010 in Manchester this October with the express intention of making the tyre trade aware of the excellent profit opportunities that battery sales offer the tyre industry. Manbat’s marketing manager, Myles Pemberton explained: “Many sectors of the aftermarket do extremely well out of selling batteries, but the tyre trade lags far behind. However, if shouldn’t be this way because of the sheer number of vehicles, each of which is a genuine sales opportunity, that pass through the average fast-fit on a daily basis.”

According to Pemberton, the purpose of exhibiting at Brityrex is to speak with tyre professionals and explain how they can start selling batteries if they don’t offer them at the moment, or “how simple it is to increase sales and therefore revenue,” if they currently only sell a few.

19th July 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Varta the Second Most Popular Brand in Germany

Varta car batteries are the second most popular battery brand in Europe’s largest car market, according to the latest readership survey in one of Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport. The annual focused on battery brands and workshops. Nearly 100,000 car drivers ranked Varta second only to Bosch in terms of performance and positive image. Positive responses by readers to the brand rose 3.4 per cent to 69.2 per cent compared to the previous survey.

21st May 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Conti Partners in CV Hybrid Battery Project

Continental is working together with two other companies on a project related to lithium-ion batteries for commercial vehicles. Specifically, Continental, along with automotive suppliers ZF Friedrichshafen and ads-tec, are embarking on a joint project to develop production techniques for optimising the pre-assembly and final assembly stages of lithium-ion energy storage unit modules for use in hybrid commercial vehicles. This joint project, titled “FUEL” or “Future goes Electric”, is being sponsored by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of a government economic stimulus package.

11th May 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

UAE Distributor ZAFCO Announces Retail Plans

One of the Middle East’s leading tyre distribution companies has announced its plan to open 65 automotive service outlets by 2012 at a dinner for its United Arab Emirates partners. ZAFCO is a supplier to the UAE domestic market, and a global supplier to customers in the USA, Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific and Australia, has revealed details of its ambitious expansion plans. The Dubai-based company is set to launch its own chain of premium quality retail outlets across the GCC.

23rd April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Tyremen Moves into 26,000 sq ft Premises

Tyremen Hull Ltd is expanding into new 26,000 square foot (2500 square metre) premises, reportedly creating “a new one stop shop for tyre services.” The new site in Witty Street, west Hull, just a few yards from one of the firm’s current sites, means the well established family tyre business in Hull is bringing all its services together under one roof. Currently, the company is split between three units in Witty Street, Anlaby Road and Argyle Street, however after the move is completed the three sites will be consolidated into one “huge” facility offering services such as tyres, alloy wheels, batteries, exhausts and wheel alignment.

By centralising all its work at the former Swedecor premises, Tyremen representatives say the company hopes to improve efficiency and increase work capacity. Tyremen was set up more than 40 years ago and is run by co-directors Lindsay Carlin and his son Phil.

20th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Rubberking Anticipates Increased African Presence

Rubberking Tyres India reports a successful 2010 show: "Tyrexpo Africa has always been a good platform for us to establish and promote our tyre brand and product range to the African market,” stated Dipti Jambhekar, Rubberking’s senior executive of international sales. “Though the number of visitors appeared to be less than normal, we were able to generate some serious quality inquiries, revive our relations with old customers and network with our existing ones.

16th April 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

European Zeetex Dealers Visits Thailand with S&H Tyres

European dealers of Zeetex brand automotive parts have returned from an all-inclusive trip to Thailand organised by Simon Klapwijk on behalf of S&H Tyres, on which the group visited the factory that produces Zeetex batteries and spent a day at the test track, sampling the new Zeetex HP102 tyre. During a welcome dinner, Klapwijk explained the marketing concept and the expansion of the size range for 2010 in both passenger car and truck and bus segments, opening the European Zeetex Convention 2010.

16th March 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Brityrex Increases Aftermarket Appeal

More exhibitors from across the aftermarket have signed up for October’s Brityrex International exhibition, with familiar names and new brands seeking to capitalise on the potential offered by a post-recession tyre and equipment marketplace. Among the latest names to be confirmed by show organiser ECI International are battery specialist Manbat, Chinese tyre maker Guizhou Tyre Co and a strong hand of garage equipment suppliers in Snap-On Equipment, DQN and JHM Butt & Co.

11th March 2010/by Tyrepress Editors

Are Automotive Battery Manufacturers Facing Overcapacity?

The share of electrified powertrains is expected to increase significantly in all major automotive markets as a result of marked decreases in the cost of batteries over the next decade. Yet the desire to capitalise on this growing market may lead to problems in the years ahead: According to Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, planned investments in battery production will result in significant overcapacity occurring between 2014 and 2017, especially in the US and in Japan. As a consequence, experts at the strategy consultancy believe only six to eight global battery manufacturers will survive the next five to seven years. This is the conclusion the company drew from its “Powertrain 2020 – Li-ion batteries – The next bubble ahead?" market survey.

10th March 2010/by Tyrepress Editors