Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator instructions) Your first question comes from the line of Jamie Wilen from Wilen Management. You may proceed.
Jamie Wilen -- Wilen Management
I have got a couple of questions. First, as regard to unit volume versus pricing, was unit volume in the second quarter equivalent to what it was in the first quarter and within the Battery business, you said that the seasonality of third and fourth are strongest, but could you kind of quantify it a little bit more within the Battery side?
Roger Tannery
Jamie if I understood your question (inaudible). Are you asking me was our price volume roughly the same in this quarter as the first quarter?
Jamie Wilen -- Wilen Management
Unit volume, roughly the same in the second quarter as the first, correct; on the Battery side, number of units sold.
Roger Tannery
It was similar, yes.
Jamie Wilen -- Wilen Management
Okay. And seasonally, as you say the third and fourth is strongest, is that from the Battery side.
Roger Tannery
It is actually across the board on a lot of products as a lot of the big box stores that we do business with start ordering in the late summer and early fall to gear up for fall specials and winter specials. That is when we see some increased business.
Jamie Wilen -- Wilen Management
As far as gross margins go, you said the price increases that you implemented during the quarter were not fully instituted [ph] to later on in the quarter. Could you kind of – I understand what your gross margins were for the quarter but could you characterize what they were as you began the quarter versus what they were when you ended the quarter?
Randy Hardin
Jamie, we have just a little bit higher, I think we were 15.2% in the first quarter, and we did have some cost increases that came through. We were just very sensitive to the market and we have implemented some of those costs and will continue to, but we just were not comfortable passing them on totally at this point. Because of the commodity nature, so much of it, we have a lot of – particularly, our larger customers that really do watch the commodity market and it is very difficult sometimes to convince them that we have to move forward in particular. Let me say this, during the early part of the quarter, there were signs that the lead commodity specifically was actually going to be coming down. So we held off a little bit, only to find that that didn’t really happen, it declined a little bit, but then it came back and started back up again. So, simply a timing issue, in my mind.
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