Mean Green Products LLC, a commercial electric mower manufacturing, announces that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued the company a new patent. Mean Green Mowers has exclusive rights to advantageous e-mower technologies covered by the patent.

Ariens Co. unveils a sculpture and garden to celebrate 50 years of the Sno-Thro, and the life of its creator.

Last weekend in the U.K., a Countax riding mower set a speed record of 87.33 mph, topping the record of 80.6 mph set by a Snapper mower in 2006 at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Snapper is owned by Briggs & Stratton Corp. of Wauwatosa.

Pervasive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: PVSW), a global leader in cloud-based and on-premises data integration, and IRON Solutions, Inc., the leading source of Equipment Market Intelligence™ used by the agricultural, industrial and outdoor power equipment industries in North America, announce their partnership at the Metamorphosis 2010 Executive Summit