Briggs & Stratton, a maker of motors for lawn mowers, has granted premium options for a decade, according to James E. Brenn, its chief financial officer.
Rockwell Automation announced today that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit quadrupled, as the company -- a maker of motors, relays, switches and sensors -- reduced costs and increased sales.
SPX CORP., Muskegon, Mich., a maker of motors for kitchen appliances and exercise equipment, said it planned to spend $250 million to buy back about 3.25 million shares, or 9.5percentt, of its common stock.
The Monaco Coach Corporation, a maker of luxury motor homes, said yesterday that it would acquire the motor home maker Corporation for about $21 million to expand its product line.
Franklin Electric Co., Bluffton, Ind., a maker of electric motor controls, plans to close an operation in Muskegon, Mich., that employs 94.
"THE biggest thing we have is the words 'Great Britain'," says Stewart McIntyre, managing director of Sunseeker, a maker of luxury motor yachts.
Marketocracy's M100 were big buyers of Fleetwood Enterprises, a maker of luxury motor coaches and other recreational vehicles under nameplates like American Coach, Tioga and Fleetwood.
He waited eight years to complete his most recent acquisition, last September's purchase of Damon, a maker of big motor homes costing $60,000 and up.
The Regal-Beloit Corporation, a maker of gearboxes, motors and generators, agreed yesterday to buy the Leeson Electric Corporation for about $260 million in cash.
Alliant Techsystems Inc., a maker of rocket motors and small-caliber ammunition for the military, raised its sales and profit forecasts for fiscal 2005 after buying the PSI Group, a satellite-parts maker.
