Huge corporate debt and poor management are disrupting the world's largest small motor maker. The new company will be leaner and with newly negotiated union contracts.
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Wisconsin small gas engine maker Briggs & Stratton files for bankruptcy protection
KPS Capital Partners, a private equity firm, has entered into an agreement to buy the assets of the 112-year-old company for $550 million.
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