Brunswick Corporation : Brunswick Agrees to Acquire Lankhorst Taselaar, Strengthening Mercury Marine's European P&A Network




LAKE FOREST, Ill. July 20, 2017 - Brunswick Corporation (NYSE: BC) today
announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Lankhorst Taselaar, a leading
marine parts and accessories distribution company based in the Netherlands and
Germany.  Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.  Upon completion of this
transaction, Lankhorst Taselaar will be integrated into Mercury Marine to
augment the engine maker's strong and growing P&A business in Europe.

With 2016 revenue of approximately $25 million, Lankhorst Taselaar sells an
extensive array of parts and components, as well as offers next-day delivery to
nearly all its 3,000 customers, many of which are new to Mercury Marine's
network in the region.

The transaction is subject to usual and customary closing conditions including
relevant merger filings, and is expected to close in the third quarter.

"Lankhorst Taselaar will help Mercury to advance its presence and service
throughout Northern Europe, particularly in Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands
and Germany," explained John Pfeifer, president - Mercury Marine.  "It allows us
to more quickly accomplish our goals of increasing share in this important and
growing market, and the unified distribution network should greatly accelerate
the future growth of the combined operations, with a broader product line and an
expanded distribution network."

Lankhorst Taselaar's workforce consists of approximately 50 people and the
company will continue the planned move into a new state-of-the-art facility in
Heerenveen, the Netherlands, by the end of 2017.

The Lankhorst Taselaar acquisition is expected to have minimal impact upon
Brunswick's 2017 results, Brunswick Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Mark
Schwabero explained.  Further, the impact of this type of transaction has
already been considered in Brunswick's 2018 plan, which was originally presented
to the financial community in November 2015.

"We continue to seek opportunities to strategically grow our marine and fitness
operations throughout the world," Schwabero explained.  "Lankhorst Taselaar will
bolster and solidify the distribution arm of our marine P&A business in Europe.
As we have done in recent years with BLA in Australia and Payne's Marine in
Canada, Lankhorst Taselaar expands our reach and customer responsiveness in the
global marine marketplace and offers us a larger footprint upon which to build
in Europe.

"Pursuing the Lankhorst Taselaar transaction is further evidence that Brunswick
is executing its strategy to add operations, particularly those in fitness and
marine P&A," Schwabero said.   "Including this and other completed acquisitions,
we continue to target $350 million of additional revenue from P&A acquisitions
by 2018, which was originally shared with the financial community in 2015."

Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements in this news release are forward-looking as defined in the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are
based on current expectations, estimates and projections about Brunswick's
business and by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees,
uncertain. Words such as "may,""could," "expect," "intend," "target," "plan,"
"seek," "estimate," "believe," "predict," "outlook" and similar expressions are
intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are not
guarantees of future performance and involve certain risks and
uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from
expectations as of the date of this news release. These risks include, but are
not limited to: adverse general economic conditions, including reductions in
consumer discretionary spending; negative currency trends; our ability to
complete and integrate targeted acquisitions; our ability to implement our
strategic plan and growth initiatives; adequate financing access for dealers and
customers and our ability to access capital and credit markets; maintaining
effective distribution; retaining our relationships with dealers, distributors
and independent boat builders; credit and collections risks; retaining key
customers; protecting our brands and intellectual property; absorbing fixed
costs in production;
managing expansion or consolidation of manufacturing facilities; meeting supply
objectives; meeting pension funding obligations; managing our share repurchases;
higher energy and fuel costs; competitive pricing pressures; developing new and
innovative products at a competitive price, in legal compliance; maintaining
product quality and service standards; outages or breaches of technology
systems; competitor
activity; product liability, warranty and other claims risks; increased costs of
legal and regulatory compliance; having to record an impairment to the value of
goodwill and other assets; international business risks; attracting and
retaining key contributors; and weather and catastrophic event risks.

Additional risk factors are included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K
for 2016. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are
made and Brunswick does not undertake any obligation to update them to reflect
events or circumstances after the date of this news release or for changes by
wire services or Internet service providers.

About Brunswick
Headquartered in Lake Forest, Ill., Brunswick Corporation's  leading consumer
brands include Mercury and Mariner outboard engines; Mercury MerCruiser
sterndrives and inboard engines; MotorGuide trolling motors; Attwood, Garelick
and Whale marine parts and accessories; Land 'N' Sea, Kellogg Marine, Payne's
Marine, and BLA parts and accessories distributors; Bayliner, Boston Whaler,
Brunswick Commercial and Government Products, Crestliner, Cypress Cay, Harris,
Lowe, Lund, Meridian, Princecraft, Quicksilver, Rayglass, Sea Ray, Thunder Jet
and Uttern; Life Fitness, Hammer Strength, Cybex, Indoor Cycling Group  and
SCIFIT fitness equipment; InMovement products and services for productive well-
being; and Brunswick billiards tables, accessories and game room furniture. For
more information, visit http://www.brunswick.com.



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| Contact:   Daniel Kubera                                    |
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|     Director - Media Relations and Corporate Communications |
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| Phone:   847-735-4617                                       |
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| Email:    daniel.kubera@brunswick.com                       |
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