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Briggs & Stratton Increases Dividend

4 August 1999

Briggs & Stratton Increases Dividend

    MILWAUKEE, Aug. 4 -- Briggs & Stratton Corporation
has announced that its Board of Directors has authorized an
increase in its regular quarterly dividend from Twenty-nine cents ($0.29) to
Thirty cents ($0.30) per share.  The dividend is payable October 1, 1999 to
shareholders of record at the close of business on August 26, 1999.

                         BRIGGS & STRATTON CORPORATION

                         James E. Brenn
                         Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer