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PRESS RELEASE
BATTERIES BATTERIES, INC. REPORTS ON
APPOINTMENTS OF TWO NEW DIRECTORS AND
TERMINATION OF CONSENT SOLICITATION
New York, New York, May 21, 1998 -- Batteries Batteries,
Inc. (NASDAQ: "BATS"), reported today that its Board of Directors
has appointed Allan S. Kalish and Robert C. Meehan as Directors
of the Company. Messrs. Kalish and Meehan were appointed to fill
the vacancies on the Board created by the resignations, on May 5,
1998, of Warren H. Haber and John L. Teeger as Directors of the
Company. On May 5, 1998, Alan W. Baldwin, President and Chief
Executive Officer of the Company, was also appointed Chairman of
the Board.
The Batteries Batteries, Inc. Committee to Maximize
Shareholder Value, which announced on May 4, 1998 that it would
initiate a shareholder consent solicitation for the purpose of
removing Messrs. Haber and Teeger from the Board and replacing
them with Messrs. Kalish and Meehan, has advised the Company that
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