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| Does anyone know if the LEGO stores are "company" stores or franchises? I assume they are "company" stores (owned and operated by TLG) but was curious. Ted (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) As I understand it, LEGO Stores are a subpart of TLG. But TLG isn't a single giant company, but more like a collection of companies with joint leadership. For instance, LEGO Stores have to buy their product from the TLG distributor (and, oddly (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Yes, the LEGO Stores are fully and totally owned by the LEGO Group. Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liaison LEGO Community Team (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) The LEGO stores are owned and operated via LEGO Brand Retail (LBR), a subgroub in TLG. The US stores are headquartered in Enfield. There is only one franchise, and that's in Dubai. There are 23 (soon to be 26--stores in MA, CA and OR coming) (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Figures, 30 Million people in Michigan, Ohio and Ontario, and not one store...... Gary Istok (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) More figures: 2 Million (yes, TWO MILLION) people in Slovenia (Yes, we are small). And not one LEGO store..... :) :) :) :) Saso Tomat, Slovenia (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) 15 Million people in all of New England and we only have 2 stores (soon to be 3) all in Eastern and Central Massachusetts and 1 US headquarters. I mean really, why can't we get some love in New England.(1) -Eric (1) Anyone who didn't catch the (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) Ha, yeah, forgot about Dubai. That's pretty new. I've been trying to figure out how to get down there... you know, for research. Yeah, that's it... yeah yeah. And to the point about size of city - the stores are placed based on the largest (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| (snip) (...) And not one LEGO store..... :) :) :) :) (...) Well, I can't help you out much with store placement (I'm not involved with that), and as for Europe--that's LEGO Europe, not Americas... you'd be suprised how many people came to me at (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jun-05, to lugnet.lego)
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| (...) In case anybody was wondering about the LEGO® Store in Dubai; it no longer exists! I was just at the Ibn Battuta Mall and sadly enough 29A (a.k.a. the LEGO Store) was boarded up! I almost cried... -Eric Hunter (17 years ago, 17-May-08, to lugnet.lego)
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