Talk:Spectrum Brands

Rayovac Current Status (2020)
Spectrum Brands website doesn't appear to have any reference to Rayovac. Many current buyers of Rayovac brand batteries on Amazon complain about leakage. I wonder if these are counterfeit batteries and whether Spectrum is still making/selling Rayovac batteries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:140:8A00:AA70:F06B:CBFA:D7AD:5242 (talk) 22:39, 13 February 2020 (UTC)

===The lede says that the battery business was sold in 2018. If true, the History and Batteries sections need to be revised.

The battery business was sold to Energizer in 2018, the Batteries section should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:1343:8867:2844:7482:631F:D852 (talk) 15:11, 24 July 2020 (UTC)

Merge discussion - Rayovac
Rayovac should be merged into this article. Both of them are relatively short and there is no good reason for there to be two separate articles. – ukexpat (talk) 21:14, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree. There was some talk earlier this year about Spectrum Brands selling off Rayovac, but that seems to have subsided so an article merger at this point would be appropriate. Alanraywiki (talk) 21:18, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Rayovac is a unique brand with unique products/consumers and should have its own page. Otherwise you should merge duracell into procter and gambel and energizer into S.C. Johnson(69.128.4.10 (talk) 21:45, 8 June 2010 (UTC))
 * Energizer is not an S.C. Johnson product, it is a product of Energizer Holdings. Steelbeard1 (talk) 01:06, 9 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Looking at the short article here, I agree that a merge would be productive. Rayovac batteries are their centerpiece brand, even now, and the separate article isn't likely to grow much beyond what's currently there. — Gavia immer (talk) 02:16, 9 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Support merge. Rayovac and Spectrum are the same company. Spectrum Brands was originally Rayovac Corporation. Rayovac Corporation changed their name to Spectrum Brands in the mid 2000s because they had bought other companies, and thus had diversified their product line beyond batteries and flashlights. The Spectrum Brands article thus also needs some good cleanup too. [|Retro00064|&#9742;talk|&#x270D;contribs|] 02:59, 12 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Why merge? "Defunct" companies or company subdivisions, etc. can have their own articles. There's no need to merge. - M0rphzone (talk) 05:17, 16 May 2012 (UTC)


 * The Rayovac article is about the brand, but also contains the history of Spectrum Brands, called Rayovac at the time; it's that section that perhaps belongs here. Peter&#160;James (talk) 19:40, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

Production and development
It would be interesting to know something about production. Are Rayovac batteries still designed and built in facilities owned by Spectrum Brands and in the US, or do they only do marketing and quality studies, as the company name suggests?

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Rayovac link
Despite the merge decision there is still a wikilink to an ostensible Rayovac article in the last paragraphy of 1.1: "Rayovac, as a division of Spectrum Brands, remained headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin". Mcljlm (talk) 15:13, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

The Ray-O-Vac Twins
I looked up this article to see what "Ray-O-Vac" was after discovering a novelty 78 rpm record made in 1926 by "The Ray-O-Vac Twins", also known as Russ Wildey and Bill Sheehan (so presumably they weren't really twins). I don't know how famous they were at the time or how successful and long-lasting this slightly odd publicity campaign was, but does it perhaps merit a mention? If you're interested, here's the record:

https://archive.org/details/78_a-trip-to-the-circus_the-ray-o-vac-twins-russ-wildey-bill-sheehan_gbia0104772a 86.132.249.185 (talk) 10:23, 12 October 2022 (UTC)