Briggs and Stratton Corp.

Public Company, Headquarters Location
PO Box 702, Milwaukee, WI 53201-0702, United States
(414)259-5333, (414)259-5773 fax, http://www.briggsandstratton.com

Primary SIC: Turbines And Turbine Generator Sets, Primary NAICS: Turbine and Turbine Generator Set Unit Manufacturing
Description: Founded by Stephen Foster Briggs and Harold M. Stratton in 1909, Briggs and Stratton Corporation reincorporated in Delaware in 1924 and went public on the New York Stock Exchange. Briggs and Stratton operates in the lawn and garden equipment industry as a producer of air-cooled gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment. The company offers air-cooled, four-cycle gasoline engines in the 2 to 18 horsepower range, small gasoline engines, walk-behind and riding lawn mowers, garden tillers and snow throwers. The company also manufactures generators, pressure washers, air compressors, tillers, chipper/shredders, leaf blowers, vacuums and other related garden accessories for industrial, construction and agricultural applications. Briggs and Stratton has engine manufacturing facilities in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Missouri, Ostrava, Czech Republic and Chongqing, China and service parts distribution center in Wisconsin, Washington, Wisconsin, Georgia, Tennessee and New York. As of 2008, the company serves its key international markets through its European regional office in Switzerland, its distribution center in the Netherlands and service subsidiaries in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates. More

Manufacturing: Producer of air-cooled gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment including lawn mowers, tillers, generators, pumps and pressure washers.