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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

FRED STRATTON HONORED BY OPEI

Alexandria, VA, June 28, 2001-- During the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute's 49th Annual Meeting, OPEI Chairman, Mike Ariens, honored Frederick P. Stratton with the association's Glenn Alexander Award. Mr. Ariens said that this highly prestigious award is bestowed only occasionally to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the industry. Fred Stratton had filled this bill for many years: he has participated actively on the OPEI Board of Directors and his insights and leadership have served OPEI well, no matter what was at issue. As chairman and CEO of the Briggs and Stratton Corporation, a major industry company, his support and commitment to OPEI's goals and objectives has been invaluable, and he has always made his company's key people available to serve on OPEI committees that work hard on behalf of the industry.

Mr. Ariens said, "Fred Stratton has been a friend, an advisor, and a business partner to many of us in the industry."

Additionally, Mr. Stratton is well-versed in the ways and means of Boards of Directors: He serves as a director or trustee on over a dozen other Boards in the business and education community including Bank One Corporation, the Wisconsin Energy Corporation, the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, member of the Board of Overseers, Hoover Institution, Stanford University and the Senior Advisory Committee for Engineering, Yale University. And in the past, he has been active in more than a dozen civic, educational, business and non-profit associations. He was born in Milwaukee and educated at the old Milwaukee Country Day School; received a B.S. from Yale University. He and his wife Anne have three children.

OPEI's 49th Annual Meeting was held in Ponte Vedra, Florida from June 21-23, 2001.

OPEI is a trade association whose membership is primarily composed of U.S. manufacturers of powered lawn and garden maintenance products, components and attachment supplies, as well as industry-related services. OPEI's domestic members manufacture in excess of 95% of the U.S. consumer retail market for gas and electric powered lawn and garden maintenance products.

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