as nyse enr industry consumer products founded 1896 ; 120 years ago 1896 as the american electrical novelty & manufacturing company spun off from ralston purina company in 2000 headquarters town and country missouri united states key people alan hoskins ceo products batteries revenue 3.4 billion 2007 1 operating income 434 million 2007 1 net income 321 million 2007 1 total assets 3.5 billion 2007 1 total equity 654 million 2007 1 number of employees 5 500 2015 2 website www.energizer.com energizer holdings is an american manufacturer of batteries headquartered in town and country missouri . 3 4 5 6 it produces batteries under the energizer and eveready brand names and formerly owned a number of personal care until it separated that side of the business into a new company called edgewell personal care in 2015 . energizer battery contents 1 history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links history edit the company has its foundation in the eveready battery company which in 1980 changed the name of its eveready alkaline power cell to energizer . in 1986 eveready battery company was sold to animal and human food manufacturer ralston purina . in 2000 ralston spun off eveready and it was listed on the new york stock exchange as energizer holdings inc. . in 2003 under the leadership of then chief executive officer j. patrick mulcahy energizer holdings started expanding into the personal care product sector by buying personal care and razor brand schick and gardening tools and razor brand wilkinson sword from pfizer . in 2005 after hurricane katrina energizer worked with the red cross to donate flashlights batteries razors and funds to help hurricane katrina relief workers and victims . 7 on november 3 2005 energizer holdings inc.said that higher sales of its schick razors and blades partially offset lower sales of its batteries in north america . on a constant currency basis sales at energizer rose 4 percent in its fourth quarter . 8 in october 2007 the company acquired playtex products inc. for 1.9 billion . the purchase included sunscreen brand hawaiian tropic which playtex had bought a few months earlier and sun pharmaceuticals corp. which manufactures the banana boat sunscreen products . 9 in 2009 energizer acquired edge and skintimate shaving gels from s.c. johnson & son . 10 11 in october 2010 energizer announced it was the winning bidder for privately held american safety razor in a bankruptcy court auction . 12 the maker of banana boat sunscreen recalled a half million bottles of spray on lotion after reports that a handful of people have caught on fire after applying the product and coming in contact with an open flame . on october 19 2012 energizer holdings said it was withdrawing 23 varieties of its banana boat brand of ultramist spray on sunscreen lotion from stores due to the risk of it igniting when exposed to fire . 13 on july 31 2013 energizer bought the stayfree carefree and o.b. brands from johnson & johnson for 185 million . the purchase was only for the brands in north america johnson & johnson continues to own the brands in all other regions of the world . 14 on april 30 2014 energizer announced that by september 2015 it would separate its two lines of business into two publicly traded companies . the household business with revenue of 1.9 billion in the latest fiscal year would have energizer chairman j. patrick mulcahy as its chairman and unit chief alan hoskins as ceo and would sell batteries flashlights and lamps . the personal care company whose revenue was 2.6 billion would have energizer ceo ward klein serving as chairman and current unit head david hatfield as ceo and would sell feminine products from playtex carefree o.b. and stayfree ; shaving products from schick edge skintimate and wilkinson sword ; and suntan products from hawaiian tropic and banana boat . 15 16 see also edit energizer bunny missouri portal companies portal references edit a b c d e google finance . finance.google.com . 2013 07 31 . retrieved 2013 09 30 . energizer holdings contact energizer . energizer holdings . retrieved on august 18 2009 . zoning map . city of town and country . retrieved on august 18 2009 . town and country city . u.s. census bureau . retrieved on august 18 2009 . volkmann kelsey . energizer to cut jobs as sales slump . st. louis business journal . tuesday july 28 2009 . retrieved on august 18 2009 . energizer help hurricane katrina victims . schick sales buoy energizer holdings . energizer annual report 2007 retrieved 2010 10 30 update 3 energizer to buy sc johnson shaving cream business . reuters . may 11 2009 . retrieved january 25 2016 . energizer to buy shaving cream line . the boston globe . may 12 2009 . retrieved january 25 2016 . reuters retrieved 2011 06 18 banana boat sunscreen maker recalls 500 000 bottles of spray on lotion because of fire risk . daily news new york . 19 october 2012 . retrieved 2 september 2013 . energizer adds to its feminine side . the wall street journal . energizer to split into 2 companies to hone focus . winston salem journal . 30 april 2014 . retrieved 30 april 2014 . energizer announces intent to separate into two publicly traded companies . energizer holdings inc. 30 april 2014 . retrieved 30 april 2014 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to energizer holdings . energizer holdings v t e energizer products energizer batteries eveready batteries subsidiaries eveready battery company affiliates eveready east africa eveready industries india other energizer bunny retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title energizer & oldid 739283552 categories american brandscompanies based in st. louis county missouricompanies established in 1896companies listed on the new york stock exchangeconsumer battery manufacturersformer components of the dow jones industrial averagehidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschespa ol fran ais bahasa indonesiaitaliano polskiportugu s t rk e edit links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 20 21 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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