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Briggs & Stratton Announces Share Repurchase

20 January 1999

Briggs & Stratton Announces Share Repurchase

    MILWAUKEE, Jan. 20 -- Briggs & Stratton Corporation
Briggs & Stratton Corporation announced today that its Board of Directors
has approved the repurchase of up to 1.3 million shares of the Company's
common stock.  Purchases will be made from time to time, using available cash,
in open market or private transactions.  These share repurchases are intended
to minimize dilution from shares issued for employee benefit plans.

                            BRIGGS & STRATTON CORPORATION

                             James E. Brenn
                             Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer