Toy colossus LEGO released its annual accounts today, revealing its tenth record-high profit in eleven years.
Since bottoming out in 2003 with a 1.5 billion kroner loss, the company has generated a surplus of 8.2 billion kroner.
Lego’s total revenue rose by 10 percent, amounting to 25.5 billion kroner in 2013 compared to 23 billion kroner in 2012.
“LEGO beat its own profit record for the tenth time despite a general crisis in the global toy industry,” enthused the CEO of LEGO, Jørgen Vig Knudstorp.
“In 2013 our sales alone rose by 11 percent, which was much better than the development in the general toy market. That is a very pleasing result. In less than ten years we have more than quadrupled our revenue,” he told financial newspaper EPN.
While sales have been down in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan, a new increased focus on the Chinese market has caused sales to rise significantly there.
Source: Copenhagen Post
