LEGO

The name 'LEGO' is an abbreviation of the two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well". The LEGO Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen. The Company has passed from father to son and is now owned by Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, a grandchild of the founder. It has come a long way over the past almost 80 years - from a small carpenter’s workshop to a modern, global enterprise that is now, in terms of sales, the world’s fifth-largest manufacturer of toys.
Fun LEGO facts:
• More than 400 million children and adults will play with LEGO bricks this year.
• LEGO products are on sale in more than 130 countries.
• Approx. seven LEGO sets are sold each second.
• Approx. 19 billion LEGO elements are made every year in Billund – equivalent to
approx. 2m elements an hour or 36,000 a minute.
• On average there are 62 LEGO bricks for every person on earth.
• The world’s children spend 5 billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
• With a production of about 306 million tyres a year, the LEGO Group is the world’s
largest tyre manufacturer.
• In the manufacture of LEGO bricks the machine tolerance is as small as 0.002 mm
• The LEGO Club has 2.7 million members worldwide.
• Approx. 440 billion LEGO elements have been manufactured since 1949.