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The Kjeld Billionometer
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Tue, 6 Mar 2001 18:35:45 GMT
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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, Jobs, Spielberg). Chart and graph at
your leisure. there's probably more info out there too.
summary:
year 1997 1998 1999 2000
list place 126 > 145 > 175 > 154
billions 2.5 > 2.3 > 2.8 > 3.1
1997: Forbes' World's Richest People
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* 126. Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, Denmark, $2.5 billion, Lego
1998: Forbes' World's Richest People
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* 145 Kristiansen, Kjeld Kirk, Denmark, $2.3 billion, Lego
1999: Forbes' World's Richest People
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115.Perot, H. Ross, United States, 4.0
* 175.Kristiansen, Kjeld Kirk, Denmark, 2.8 billion, Lego
297.Case, Steve, United States, 1.6, America Online
316.Spielberg, Steven Allen, United States, 1.6
356.Jobs, Steven Paul, United States, 1.4, Apple
364.Rockefeller, Laurance Spelman, United States, 1.4
1999: KJELD KIRK KRISTIANSEN Denmark $2.8 billion
Age: 51
The business: Toys. On a mission to bring family-owned company Lego
($1.1 billion sales) into the high-tech age, with computer game versions of the
plastic interlocking bricks, including a build-your-own virtual Legoland theme
park.
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.
For fun: Traveled to March opening of Legoland in Carlsbad, Calif.
2000: Forbes' World's Richest People
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* 154.Kristiansen, Kjeld Kirk Denmark 3.1 billion
semi-related threads:
http://news.lugnet.com/lego/announce/?n=31
http://news.lugnet.com/general/?n=28483
-Suz
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: The Kjeld Billionometer
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| (...) 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... (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: The Kjeld Billionometer
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| (...) Curiosity got the better of me and I checked out how he's doing. Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen is no longer ahead of Steve Jobs, but he is higher on the list than Donald Trump! Here's another six years of data added to my own (now very old) post... (...) (18 years ago, 9-Jul-06, to lugnet.general, lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
| | | Re: The Kjeld Billionometer
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| Thanks for the info Suz! When I looked at the Forbes list a few years ago, I remember seeing another Danish name on the list (can't remember it)... but the company associated with that other name is familiar to us all.......MAERSK! I guess when (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jul-06, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: The Kjeld Billionometer
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| (...) The best part about this is that Kjeld is one of the nicest, kindest, most modest people I've ever met. (I can say this and have you believe me since I'm no longer employed there!) One of my greatest career moments was sitting in his office (...) (18 years ago, 11-Jul-06, to lugnet.general)
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