Friday, August 20, 2010

Teske Named Briggs & Stratton Chairman

Todd Teske has been named chairman of Briggs and Stratton Corp., effective upon the conclusion of the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting in October.

Teske currently serves as president and CEO of Wauwatosa-based Briggs and Stratton, a manufacturer of small engines and outdoor power equipment. The role of chairman will be added to his current duties. He will succeed John Shiely, who will retire as chairman and director at the shareholders meeting.

Briggs and Stratton also announced that James Humphrey has been named to the company’s board of directors, also effective at the conclusion of the shareholders meeting. Humphrey will serve as a member of the class of directors whose terms of office expire in 2012. He will fill the vacancy created by Shiely’s retirement.

Humphrey is chairman and CEO of privately held Andersen Corp., a Bayport, Minn.-based window and door manufacturer.

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