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Re: The Kjeld Billionometer
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 6 Mar 2001 21:31:58 GMT
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Suzanne D. Rich wrote:
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> Kjeld stays in top 200 of The Richest People in the World.
> Just think of all the LEGO sets we could buy with a billion dollars!
Yea, if we had a billion dollars to spend on LEGO, we would double the
annual production (note the sales of 1.1 billion...). Gee, I wonder how
many custom sets you could convince them to make if you have a billion
bucks to throw around...
> summary:
> year 1997 1998 1999 2000
> list place 126 > 145 > 175 > 154
> billions 2.5 > 2.3 > 2.8 > 3.1 • ...
> What's new: Announced a restructuring in January, laying off up to 1,000
> employees. In May reported losses ($28 million) for the first time since his
> grandfather founded Lego in the 1930s.
Interesting, they lost 0.028 billion, yet Kirk's personal wealth still
grew 0.3 billion... Obviously he has been investing his wealth somewhere
else besides just TLC...
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Frank Filz
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| (...) Probably, but also note that a company can, strangely enough, lose money and become more valuable at the same time. Take, for example, Amazon, whose stock shot up like Discovery... have they actually turned a profit yet? -JDF (23 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
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| Kjeld stays in top 200 of The Richest People in the World. Just think of all the LEGO sets we could buy with a billion dollars! It's fun to see these numbers compared. royalty and such are excluded. Note in 1999 KKK beat out The Three Steves (Case, (...) (23 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.general) !
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