14 Facts About LEGO Group

1.

The Lego Group has built several amusement parks around the world, each known as Legoland, and operates numerous retail stores.

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LEGO Group built an airport in Billund to facilitate the sale of Lego toys around the world.

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3.

Name "LEGO Group" is a contraction of the words Danish: "leg godt" .

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4.

In 2003, The Lego Group won a lawsuit in Norway against the marketing group Biltema for its sale of Coko products, on the grounds that the company used product confusion for marketing purposes.

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5.

Lego Group has attempted to trademark the "Lego Indicia", the studded appearance of the Lego brick, hoping to stop production of Mega Bloks.

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6.

In 2012, it was reported that The Lego Group had become the world's most valuable toy company ahead of Mattel with a value at over US$14.

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7.

Lego Group has built eight amusement parks around the world, each known as Legoland.

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8.

In July 2005, the Lego Group announced that it had reached a deal with private investment company the Blackstone Group to sell all four parks for €375 million to the Blackstone subsidiary Merlin Entertainments.

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9.

In June 2019, The Lego Group purchased the remaining shares in Merlin Entertainments which they did not own and privatised the company.

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10.

LEGO Group was founded as Lego Media in 1996 and headquartered in London, England.

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11.

LEGO Group later produced Bionicle: Mask of Light, Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui and Bionicle 3: Web of Shadows for Creative Capers Entertainment.

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12.

In October 2021, Lego Group launched a campaign named "Ready for Girls" as part of its celebration of the UN's International Day of the Girl.

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13.

LEGO Group announced its plan to remove gender stereotypes from the toy following a review of a study commissioned by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.

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14.

On 3 March 2022, during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the LEGO Group Foundation stated it would donate approximately US$16.

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