 | | Will Kjeld sell? was[Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000]
|
|
Anyone here have current news on this: 2000: from "200 Biggest Private Companies" in Forbes: (URL) all the companies on our list will be there next year. [...] Death and taxes are often a private company's worst enemies. Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell? was[Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000]
|
|
Suzanne: (...) Not as such. But there does not appear to be any plans to change the Danish inheritance taxes at the moment. Kjeld & Co. have on the other hand received something like a 30% cut in corporate taxes during the last years. And I really (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell? was[Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000]
|
|
(...) Indeed. Business acumen is not an inherited trait. Scott A (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell? was[Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000]
|
|
(...) I believe the threat here is that potential buyers would eventually move operations (and their tax dollars) out of Denmark while the family wouldn't. Will Bricksburg Fire and Rescue: www.crosswinds.net/~hokie Bricksburg Depot: (URL) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell? was[Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000]
|
|
(...) Oh, no! Don't sjell, Kjeld! eric (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell? was[Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000]
|
|
(...) Aha! The overall picture becomes quite clear now. Would someone in KKK's position really make such statements in a flippant manner? Hopefully some brick-sensible outfit like Tyco or Ritvik will buy it up and make a truly superior product, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell?
|
|
(...) Heh, too bad we could not buy the company. abe Larry P. can. ; ) Scott S. -- (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell?
|
|
(...) Wow. I wonder who, if anyone, TLC is potentially courting? Disney? Hasbro? Mattel? Microsoft? All of the above? This is the first actual evidence I've heard that puts some truth into the rumors that LEGO might be gearing up to sell the (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell? was[Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000]
|
|
(...) Least we forget that TLC just moved some of the manufacturing operations to another European country (Slovakia or the Czech Republic ?). This was mentioned about the same time as the announcement of the changes at Enfield, CT. The reason cited (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell?
|
|
"Scott Sanburn" <ssanburn@cleanweb.net> wrote in message news:web-5501922@cle...web.net... (...) <stupid idea> Could we all pool together and buy it? </stupid idea> -Tim (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell? was[Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000]
|
|
(...) *ahem* NNNNNNNOOO...OOOooo....ooo...ooo! Erin -- In a recent poll, 45.7% of minifig's were still very confused with the ballot in the Town Building contest. (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell?
|
|
What are Death Duties? Eric (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell?
|
|
Eric, (...) I would guess that they are like the estate tax. If you have over x amount (I think your assets have to be over a million dollars for the US federal estate tax) the government taxes it at 55 or 60%, so effectively killing a lot of (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell?
|
|
I bet that KKK is making this pitch to get the beaurocrats in Copenhagen to make some changes. You have to realize that there is not that much going on in Jutland (the part of Denmark that Billund is in), commerce wise, and LEGO is the major (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell? was[Re: LEGO Company announces poor performance in year 2000]
|
|
Erin Windross wrote in message ... (...) If the minifigs would like to let me know what they are confused about, I'll try and help them :-) Kevin ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: (URL) Lego parts store: (URL) Lego auctions: (URL) Guild (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell?
|
|
"Eric Brok" <brok@fcjsvc.hvu.nl> skrev i meddelandet news:G9s08t.16K@lugnet.com... (...) Taxation on inheritance, I presume. In Sweden (and probably in Denmark too), it is nowadays almost impossible to inherit a large company, a castle, or anything (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell?
|
|
(...) Mark says: Yes, let's buy it! Marks Bank says: you and who's money??? <VETO> Mark says: well, that's my two cents... (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
| |
| | Re: Will Kjeld sell?
|
|
(...) Well, I'm sure if all of us on LUGNET pitched in 10 bucks, we'd be able to raise enough for the value of their current product lines. <ZING!!> Nasty :] KDJ ___...___ LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
|
