Lego Beats Hasbro as World’s No. 2 Toymaker Amid Asia Sales Jump
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Lego A/S, the Danish building-block maker, said first-half sales jumped 13 percent with the strongest growth in Asia amid a slower start to 2013 in the toy markets of North America and Europe.
Lego’s first-half revenue rose to 10.4 billion kroner ($1.84 billion) from 9.13 billion kroner in the same period a year earlier, according to a statement published today by the Billund, Denmark-based company.