The Lego Group

Also known as Lego Group, Lego A/S, Lego, Lego company, Lego Aktieselskab

Danish toy manufacturer best known for interlocking-brick construction toys

AI overview

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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Vinony's link graph records 696 inbound references to The Lego Group, and connects out to amusement park, Lego minifigure and LEGO Friends.

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It is catalogued under topics including Companies based in Billund Municipality, Coordinates not on Wikidata and Creative Commons-licensed authors.

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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)
Net income: 13.8 billion kr. (2024)
Total assets: 68.7 billion kr. (2024)
Owners: Kirkbi (75%) The Lego Foundation (25%)
Number of employees: 31,282 (2024)
Parent: Kirkbi
Website: lego.com

via Wikipedia infobox

Research organization · ROR

Type: Company
Founded: 1932
Location: Billund, Denmark
Status: Active

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GRID grid.425197.c · ISNI 0000 0004 0425 9757

Wikidata facts

Instance of: privately held company
Named after: Lego
Official name: Lego A/S
Country: Denmark
Founded by: Ole Kirk Christiansen
Headquarters: Billund
CEO: Godtfred Kirk Christiansen
Employees: 16836
Revenue: 65914000000
Legal form: aktieselskab
Official website: www.lego.com
Image: Legoland Minilands London.jpg

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inception: 1932-00-00
topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Lego
Commons category: Lego
product or material produced: software
topic's main category: Category:Lego
operating income: 5542000000
net profit: 4160000000
total assets: 12904000000
director / manager: Niels B. Christiansen
board member: Jørgen Vig Knudstorp
IPv4 routing prefix: 171.20.0.0/16
number of branches: 42
social media followers: 19400000
stylized name: The LEGO Group
official jobs URL: www.lego.com/de-de/careers

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Encyclopedic overview

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".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Lego Group” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.