National And Local News - 2014

NEWS ARTICLE - 1/22/2014 - By Haley Shapely

The new types of bulbs: halogen, CFL, and LED, are considered to be at 25% more energy efficient and require 30% less electricity. To put that in perspective, if every American home replaced just one incandescent bulb with an “energy-efficient” one we would save enough energy to light 3 million homes for a year.

NEWS ARTICLE - 1/17/2014 - By Melissa Stewart (The Cincinnati Enquirer)

Chuck Duty and his wife Sharon are the proud owners of the newest business to open its doors in Florence – the nation’s largest light bulb and battery chain, Batteries Plus Bulbs. Their main requirement when they began to explore franchise opportunities was that they didn’t want to work in a saturated market. They accomplished just this by opening the first Batteries Plus Bulbs store in Northern Kentucky.

NEWS ARTICLE - 1/9/2014 - By Cara Hallam (The Turlock Journal)

Jerry Stokes has been operating a successful Batteries Plus Bulbs franchise location in Modesto and he now prepares for the opening of his second location in Turlock. Stokes says that the timing couldn’t be better. With the federal and state mandated shift into energy-efficient light bulbs coupled with the exponentially increasing interest in mobile devices, the upside for Batteries Plus Bulbs is extremely high.

NEWS ARTICLE - 1/8/2014 - WTMJ News

One of the biggest issues drivers face when temperatures reach sub-zero levels is battery failure. Batteries Plus Bulbs stores in Wisconsin sold three times the number of car and truck batteries in the first week of 2014 compared to the same week the year prior. As weather conditions continue to plummet, it's important to make sure batteries, tires, and fuel lines in cars are all functioning properly to avoid emergency situations this winter.