The LEGO Group Introduction Founded in 1932, the LEGO Group is a privately held company headquartered in Billund, Denmark. The vision of Lego Group is to “inspire children to explore and challenge their own creative potential”[1] Lego now ranks 4th in the world as a toy manufacturer. The Lego Group employs nearly 9,000 workers and its own product, Lego Brick can be found in over 130 countries. The financial performance of Lego declined drastically through the 1990’s and early 2000’s. In 2004, the
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article was about LEGO Group and a deal gone wrong with DHL. LEGO Group was founded in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen in Billund, Denmark. They had around 70 years of exceptional business, before an abrupt stop in 1998. It was not specified why the craze had such an immediate break, but I believe the progression or advancement of technology, computers, and just cell phones alone were the demise of the toy blocks. For the first time in the 70 years; staff reductions were made and LEGO began to lose money
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2012-2013 LEGO Group: Building Strategy Professor: Kelly Lecouvie Celeste Chan, Richard Guo Table of Contents Executive Summary 1 Problem statement 2 ANALYSIS 2 External Analysis - Porter’s five FORCES: 2 Internal Analysis – Core Competency 4 Main Issues 4 ALTERNATIVES 5 Recommendation 7 Appendices 8 APPENDIX A – LEGO’s VALUE CHAIN 8 APPENDIX B – Core competencies & LEgo 9 APPENDIX C – FOUNDATION & DIRECTION OF LEGO 10 Problem statement LEGO as a company
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The LEGO Group A short presentation 2011 2 The LeGO GrOup 2011 Contents It all began in 1932 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The LeGO Group in key figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Focus on growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Assignment 1: The Lego Group 1. Explain how the development of strategy at the LEGO Group reflect the key characteristics of strategic management outlined in section 1.2 and in the model in Figure 1.4 First of all, in order to explain the strategic management, the strategy model needs to be taken into account (Figure 1.4). It encompasses three key sections, namely the strategic position, the strategic choices and strategy into action. When talking about the strategic position, four questions
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Tsinghua Univerity 1. Situation Overview of the LEGO Group • Market position: Niche player in a global toy market & No.1 in construction toy category • Core Competencies: Strong brand, high quality products and innovation abilities • Recent performance: experienced some major losses but is turning better 2. Problem Statement • Issue Definition: Being a niche player in a tightening market, How can LEGO group achieve sustainable profits of 13.5% and growth rate of around
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The countries known collectively as the PIIGS—Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain—are burdened with increasingly unsustainable levels of public and private debt. Portugal, Ireland, and Greece have seen their borrowing costs soar to record highs in recent weeks, even after their loss of market access led to bailouts financed by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. Spanish borrowing costs are also rising. Greece is clearly insolvent. Even with a draconian austerity package
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! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! The LEGO Case Study 2014 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! The A CONTENTS ! ! ! 1! ! 2! ! Introduction! ! ! ! ! 3! ! 4! ! 5! ! 6! ! 7! ! 8! ! Difficult start to the decade 2001.! Signs of Recovery 2002.! Hopes dashed - 2003.! LEGOLAND parks.! LEGO Brand Stores.! The Knudstorp Review.! Financial Focus - the ! Oveson addition. ! Back to basics and the limit to adjacencies. ! ! ! ! 9! ! 10 ! Developing the strategy ! why do we exist? !
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Tyler Lubben Marketing 442 LEGO Case Analysis LEGO experienced many problems throughout many years, but none of which had to do with creativity or innovation. The problem was 100% operational, and how the company manufactured and distributed LEGO around the world. Years of continuous growth added layers of complexity to LEGO’s operations. This ultimately led to Kjeld (The CEO at the time) to step down in 2004. Knudstorp would become the new CEO and would assemble a leadership team of senior
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1. Introduction LEGO is a combination of the Danish words “leg” and “godt”, meaning “play well”. As their name and ideal, Lego has been beloved by the children as well as the parents for decades. Not only as plastic toy bricks, but also effective educational tools, the LEGO Company enjoyed continuous growth and broaden the global brand value. The LEGO brand moved to third place in 2002/2003 with only Coca-cola and Kellogg having greater respect among families with children. Even though as the
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