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Briggs & Stratton Corporation Announces Share Repurchase

8 March 2000

Briggs & Stratton Corporation Announces Share Repurchase

    MILWAUKEE, March 7 Briggs & Stratton Corporation announced today that its Board of
Directors has approved the repurchase of up to 1.0 million additional shares
of the Company's common stock.  Purchases will be made from time to time,
using available cash, in open market or private transactions.  The Company has
completed the 1.3 million share repurchase authorized by the Board in January
1999.