The Lego Group: Building Strategy‚ Case 10 Overview LEGO‚ the brand of toy that has been played with by multiple generations of people was founded during the Great Depression in 1932 by Ole Kirk Kristiansen‚ a Danish carpenter. Kristiansen started making toys out of wood and had 12 employees under him. The word LEGO combines two Danish words leg and godt‚ which mean “play well” and in Latin‚ fittingly means “to put together”. It’s ironic that LEGO was given that name because it was only later
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Analysis: * The construction toy market is worth $600 million * Lego is a $1.6 billion business in the construction toy market spread across 130 countries * Lego enjoys 80% of market share in the North American market * Lego is as an esteem brand and is looked upon not only as a toy company but also a company with toys that develop learning and new skills * Due to competitors like Mega Bloks Inc.‚ Hasbro etc. Lego started losing market share * Some of the major reasons for the
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Log for mm215……………………………………………………………….…..17 Executive Summary LEGO Group began in the workshop of Ole Kirk Christiansen‚ and has a long history which started with making wooden toys‚ plastic toys and then getting to the famous brick. Because of the foreign competition‚ many companies‚ including LEGO‚ had to reevaluate their strategies to regain competitive advantage. As a consequence‚ the current corporate vision in Lego energizes all employees. Furthermore‚ the bond between them and top
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REBRANDING LEGO 1 BSc (IM) 6th semester‚ Bachelor Thesis Authors: Binh Thi Le Supervisor: Berit Kamp REBRANDING LEGO. AN ANALYSIS OF CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS IMPLEMENTED. Department of Marketing and Statistics Aarhus School of Business [02nd May 2011] REBRANDING LEGO Abstract 2 This paper describes the seven-year rebranding process undergone by the LEGO Group in between 2004 and 2010. In the first part of the paper there is a focus on describing the relevant literature concerning
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many advantages. As I was trying to test the visibility on line of the Lego company without using the term “lego” in my search‚ as I consider to be a new customers that wanted to buy new toys and there for not knowing the company. One the first part I have implement different criteria on my search connected to the word “toys” or something similar to it‚ to see the results and to see how close to the top would Lego appear. To say that I was surprised to see that one of the largest toys manufactures
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the Flextronics offshore outsourcing project‚ LEGO had a very tight control of all the elements of the value chain. Their production plants were expansive and specialized which‚ in theory‚ would create a higher degree of standardization. Their Swiss factories only produced DUPLO toys and Technic products‚ their Danish factory solely produced LEGO System products‚ and the U.S. facility focused on American demands‚ while only 5 to 10 percent of the LEGO Group’s total production was outsourced to Chinese
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Owais Siddiqui Professor D.Riechers English 111- Tuesday January 22‚ 2013 Lego Ad This paper discusses the Lego picture advertisement which reads “Kids shouldn’t watch too much TV” (see attached picture). The photograph shows a young male sitting on the sofa pointing a gun towards his temple. The surrounding picture shows a coffee table which has a bottle of an alcoholic beverage which is half-empty. There is also a fallen glass on the coffee table. The picture shows that the young person
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various concepts applied by LEGO as a part of the IMC programme 8 (a) POSITIONING STRATEGY AND POSTIOING TACTICS 8 (b) BRAND NARRATIVES 9 (c) BRAND ENCOUNTERS 10 (d) BRAND COVERSATIONS 12 QUESTION 3. Critical evaluation of LEGO’s post 2004 IMC programme 13 CONCLUSION 16 REFERENCES…………………………………………………..............………..17 INTRODUCTION The LEGO company corporate brand was created in 1932 and for decades it has acted as a strong umbrella brand guiding LEGO through vase international
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in an industry following the same strategy along the same strategic dimensions” (Porter‚ 1980) * “a set of firms competing within an industry on the basis of similar scope and resource commitments” (Cool & Schendel‚ 1968) Competitive strategy = a choice of which strategic group to compete in = the choice of the easiest group to ‘get into’ Strategic groups are organisations within an industry with similar strategic characteristics‚ following similar strategies or competition on a similar bases
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