The Lego Group
Danish toy manufacturer best known for interlocking-brick construction toys
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The Lego Group is a Danish toy company famous for making interlocking plastic bricks that can be assembled into various structures and designs. The company matters because its construction toys have become a global phenomenon, shaping how children play and learn through creative building for generations.
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Key facts
- Trade name
- The LEGO Group
- Company type
- Private
- Industry
- Toys
- Founded
- 10 August 1932 ; 93 years ago ( 1932-08-10 )
- Founder
- Ole Kirk Christiansen
- Headquarters
- LEGO Campus, Billund , Denmark
- Number of locations
- 42 offices (2017)
- Area served
- Worldwide
- Key people
- Thomas Kirk Kristiansen ( chairman ) Niels B. Christiansen ( CEO )
- Products
- Lego
- Revenue
- 74.3 billion kr. (2024)
- Operating income
- 18.7 billion kr. (2024)
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Lego A/S, also known as the Lego Group (stylised as the LEGO Group), is a Danish construction toy manufacturer and media company based in Billund. It manufactures Lego-branded toys, consisting mostly of interlocking acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic and rubber bricks. The Lego Group has also built several amusement parks around the world, each known as Legoland, and operates numerous retail stores.
The name Lego is derived from the Danish phrase leg godt, meaning "play well".
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