Briggs & Stratton files for bankruptcy

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Huge corporate debt and poor management are disrupting the world's largest small motor maker. The new company will be leaner and with newly negotiated union contracts.

Wisconsin small gas engine maker Briggs & Stratton files for bankruptcy protection

KPS Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has entered into an agreement to buy the assets of the 112-year-old company for $550 million.

www.usatoday.com

 

[DodgyNomad]

Love my Briggs, especially the Vanguard series, easy to work on, parts readily available and cheap, and they run and run with just a little bit of maintenance.

 

[Sean McGillicuddy]

I wish them well ..

 

[WiscWoody]

Huh, yes hopefully they will come out of it ok and go on for many years to come. I live in Wisconsin where they call home as well as Harley Davidson and Kohler engines. I mow lawns in the summer and I had Ferris zero turn with a B&G Vangaurd engine, to- of the line stuff but now my mowers have Kohler EFI engines that are running good too. BTW, B&G owns Ferris Industries. They make nice commercial lawn equipmen.