The company was founded in 1908 by partners Stephen Foster Briggs and Harold M. Stratton. The founders initially thought of producing automobiles, but eventually settled on automotive components and small gasoline engines. Later on, they began making engines for washing machines and refrigerators. Briggs and Stratton engines are commonly used on lawnmowers, pressure washers, electrical generators, and other similar applications. Their original cast-iron engines were later on replaced with lightweight aluminum engines in 1953, which was the perfect answer for the rotary lawnmower due to its lower cost and lighter weight. This endeavor ultimately paved for the company’s success. During the sixties and seventies, they solidified their reputation by providing low cost Briggs and Stratton replacement parts and well designed manuals through independent central services distributors throughout the country.

Today, Briggs and Stratton is the world’s largest manufacturer of air-cooled gasoline engines for outdoor power equipment. It is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, designing, manufacturing, marketing and providing servicing for its products for original equipment manufacturers (OEM’s) worldwide.

Briggs and Stratton’s mission statement is to provide superior value by developing mutually beneficial relationships with clients, suppliers, employees, and communities. By enhancing brand equity and leadership position through the development, manufacture at low cost, sell, and provided excellent servicing for all its wide range of power products. With this in mind, the people worldwide will have the power and means to develop their economies, improve the quality of their lives, while adding value to its shareholders’ investment.

The company operates within four of the market segments, namely: engine, yard, home and international power products. Besides it engine products, the company is also well into the designing, manufacturing, and marketing of generators ( home and standby ), pressure washers, snow throwers, lawn and garden equipment ( riding and walk-behind mowers, tillers, chippers/shredders, leaf blowers, and vacuums, and other related accessories.

Being the world’s largest manufacturer of small, air-cooled engines for outdoor power equipment from lawn mowers, tillers, edgers and garden tractors to outboard motors, pressure washers and generator, it has have empowered various related equipments in more than 90 countries on all seven continents. It is also a leading provider of commercial power solutions with the Vanguard engine family being the premiere line of air and liquid-cooled gasoline and diesel engines. It is also into making racing engines from karting to Bandolero race cars to junior drag racing. When power and performance are a must, Briggs & Stratton engines are the engines of choice.

With its great presence in North America, it also has numerous manufacturing facilities, join ventures, and sales and service operations all over the world.

Briggs & Stratton parts and power products – empowering the world’s engines, today and beyond.