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Re: "The LEGO Group" or "The LEGO Company"?
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lugnet.general
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Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:04:51 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jake McKee wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Brian Kendig wrote:
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So I think the answer is that Lego doesn’t even know what it wants to be
called.
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You’d think :)
Actually, the background comes down to legal and tax issues. As I understand
each country office/branch is a separate “company”. So in Billund, it’s LEGO
A/S. In Enfield, it’s LEGO Systems, Inc., etc.
I don’t know the specifics (I try to steer clear of legal stuff), but the
name to refer to the thing that you know as “LEGO”, and you once referred to
as “The LEGO Company” is “The LEGO Group”.
Hope that helps.
Jake
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Yeah, and LEGO Brand Retail is separate from Shop@Home. There’s a tax rule out
there between having an online store and that same company having a retail store
regarding taxes. Bottom line, If Shop@Home and Brand Retail were part of the
same “company”,if you ordered from Shop@Home, and it was shipped to a location
in NJ, NY, MA, VA, FL, CT, GA, CA, WA, MN, and IL, you’d be charged state sales
tax in addition to shipping (since that’s where the LEGO stores are located).
Right now, since Shop@Home is in CT, all CT addressed have to be charged tax and
shipping. (I also witnessed this when I went to order from Circuit City with
free shipping--I still got charged state tax, so there was no difference going
down the street to buy it locally.)
Think of it this way--by LEGO being split into separate companies, it saves most
consumers a little bit of money, and diversifies the companies as well.
-Scott
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| (...) You'd think :) Actually, the background comes down to legal and tax issues. As I understand each country office/branch is a separate "company". So in Billund, it's LEGO A/S. In Enfield, it's LEGO Systems, Inc., etc. I don't know the specifics (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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