Exide

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Exide Holdings, Inc.

Trade name	Exide Technologies
Founded	1888; 136 years ago (1888)
Founder	W.W. Gibbs
Fate	Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Successors	Continental Battery Systems (US Exide-branded battery distribution) Stryten Energy (battery manufacturing) Element Resources (battery recycling) Exide Technologies (HQ in Gennevilliers, France, has the non-USA, non-Canadian, and non-Indian businesses)
Headquarters	Milton, Georgia, U.S.
Products	Batteries
Website	www.exide.com

Exide was originally a brand name for batteries produced by The Electric Storage Battery Company and later became Exide Holdings, Inc. doing business as Exide Technologies, an American lead-acid batteries manufacturing company. Exide Holdings manufactured automotive batteries and industrial batteries. Exide Holdings is based in Milton, Georgia, United States.

Exide Holdings had both manufacturing and recycling plants. The former were located throughout the U.S., Pacific Rim, Europe and Australia. Recycling plants are located in Canon Hollow, which is north of Forest City, Missouri, and Muncie, Indiana. Two recycling plants in Frisco, Texas and Vernon, California have been closed in 2012 and 2013.^[1] The plants in Reading, Pennsylvania and Baton Rouge, Louisiana have also been closed.