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Panasonic announced the plan to make Sanyo a subsidiary in November 2008, saying the tender offer would take place last spring. The delay in achieving the goal was mainly due to difficulties in clearing antitrust laws in countries where Panasonic and Sanyo operate.

Yup, DepotEco.com Will be running a Cyber Monday special. Much Like our Extremely popular Earth Day eneloop giveaway. Our Web site received over 1 million hits ( in 3 days ) and we gave away over 300 eneloop battery power packs and sold hundreds more..

Named as one of the top 100 innovations this year, PowerGenix, a manufacturer of nontoxic, high performance rechargeable Nickel-Zinc (NiZn) batteries, was honored with a Popular Science Best of What’s New Award in the Gadgets category for the company’s AA rechargeable batteries. The first new rechargeable battery technology in more than 20 years, Popular Science editors singled out PowerGenix batteries for their ability to deliver power on par with disposables.

Sanyo’s eneloop battery line was just named #1 rechargeable battery by Consumer Reports 2009.

The PowerGenix cells, however, allowed us to fire the flash anywhere between 300 and 400 times in all conditions, and even after running them bone dry and juicing them back up for months on end, we’ve yet to see ‘em take a performance hit.