c.1973 After several years use of the term Chloride Group, the name of the holding company, Chloride Electrical Storage Co, was formally changed to Chloride Group plc[1]. The subsidiary involved in making batteries was Chloride Industrial Batteries
1975 Agreed bid for Gent, a private company making firing alarms which was a large user of rechargeable batteries[2], forming Chloride Gent
1982 Sold Gent to MK Electric plc[3]
1981 Chloride and Lucas formed a joint venture reinforced with substantial government funds. The company was called Lucas Chloride EV Systems.[4]
1988 Closed 4 plants and concentrated the work at a single site in Peterborough[5]
1989 Sold its European motive power operations and the Exide Europe automotive battery business[6]
1991 Sold the industrial battery division to Hawker Siddeley[7]
1992 Uninterruptible Power Supplies were becoming an important part of the business[8]
1994 Acquired Advanced Design Electronics, which was involved in security systems[9]
1995 In the middle of a transformation of the business from batteries to electronics[10]
1999 The Power Protection Division sold uninterruptible power supplies and power conditioning systems[11]
2000 The Safety Systems Division provided emergency lighting, fire detection and security products[12]. Acquired SAED of France, renaming it Chloride Telecom Systems, providing dc power protection for telecoms companies[13]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Times, Jun 25, 1973
- ↑ The Times June 21, 1975
- ↑ The Times July 29, 1982
- ↑ The Engineer 1981/02/26
- ↑ The Times May 21, 1988
- ↑ The Times, May 24, 1989
- ↑ The Times March 16, 1991
- ↑ The Times June 18, 1992
- ↑ The Times June 26, 1996
- ↑ The Times, June 21, 1995
- ↑ The Times, June 10, 1999
- ↑ The Times, June 29, 2000
- ↑ The Times, October 27, 2000