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Re: TLG press release - not a crisis?
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Date: 
Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:56:28 GMT
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Eric Brok writes:
http://www.lego.com/info/pressspecific.asp?PressReleaseId=50&Year=1999

What caught my attention was:

<quote>
Help with their future careers and help, if they so wish, to establish
themselves a business.
</quote>

That might prove interesting. Could we see TLG's competition picking up
strength after some folks are asked to leave, that is if the folks they let go
are not dead weight? Does MegaBlox read this site? Would there be any after-
market products that arise out of this?

And I think Larry P has a point: CA might be near its end. It takes some money
putting warm bodies on the phone like that, not to mention putting a minifig
in a mailer, slapping on postage and shipping it.

-Tom McD.



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  Re: TLG press release - not a crisis?
 
(...) Hrmmm, I saw that in a very (hopeful) different way. Maybe a semi Lego-sanctioned parts source? Nah... (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)
  Re: TLG press release - not a crisis?
 
(...) I've got a little bit of authority to speak to this. My employer, Amway Corporation, has (from the organizational side of things) some similarities to TLG[1]. They are family-owned, multi-national companies. They have both been in a slump (...) (26 years ago, 25-Jan-99, to lugnet.general)

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