{"id":38027,"date":"2026-03-11T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/38027\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T18:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:59:09","slug":"lego-to-build-up-its-u-s-footprint-after-strong-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/38027\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego To Build Up Its U.S. Footprint After Strong 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Coming off a record year for sales and profits, the Lego Group plans to expand its U.S. footprint.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/placeholder.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Placeholder\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n      The Lego Store has more than 100 U.S. locations.\n    <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Danish toy company reported a 12% increase in total revenue to nearly $13B and a 16% jump in consumer sales <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lego.com\/en-us\/aboutus\/news\/2026\/march\/the-lego-group-delivers-record-results-in-2025-driven-by-strong-brand-and-innovative-portfolio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">as part of its 2025 annual results<\/a> released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lego&#8217;s 2025 revenue was some 29%\u00a0better than the combined revenues of its two nearest rivals,\u00a0<a class=\"tag tag-155406\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/hasbro\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"155406\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hasbro<\/a>\u00a0and Mattel, and Lego&#8217;s\u00a0sales growth was more than double the 7% average growth of the global toy market, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.circana.com\/post\/global-toy-industry-rebounds-in-2025-as-sales-rise-7-fueled-by-pop-culture-collectibles-and-kidu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to market researcher Circana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The company plans to open its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/national\/news\/industrial\/lego-build-first-us-factory-1b-investment-113433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first U.S. factory<\/a> next year in Virginia, which will allow\u00a0it to tailor production to meet regional demand. The toymaker also opened a factory and regional distribution center in Vietnam last year and completed expansions\u00a0of existing plants in Mexico, Hungary and China.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lego also\u00a0plans to expand its Lego Store brand beyond the nation\u2019s largest metros by opening locations in smaller cities such as Minnetonka, Minnesota, and Broomfield, Colorado, this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The retailer operates more than 100 Lego Store locations in the U.S. and expanded its portfolio to a record-high 870 products last year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Lego announced in 2023 it would\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/national\/news\/retail\/lego-to-relocate-americas-headquarters-to-boston-117335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">move its Americas headquarters<\/a>\u00a0from Connecticut to Boston by the end of this year, and it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/boston\/news\/office\/lego-leases-100k-sf-at-samuels-air-rights-project-120306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">leased more than 100K SF<\/a>\u00a0of office space in the Massachusetts metro in preparation for the move.<\/p>\n<p>The plastic brick manufacturer is keeping a close eye on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/houston\/news\/economy\/oil-price-spike-puts-developers-fed-in-wait-and-see-mode-133546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">oil price spikes<\/a>\u00a0and geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, but\u00a0Lego\u00a0CEO Niels B. Christiansen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-03-10\/lego-to-expand-in-us-as-robust-spending-eclipses-iran-war-risks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told Bloomberg<\/a>\u00a0he expects consumer spending to remain strong.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019ve grown quite nicely in the U.S. over the past three years, and I believe that can continue \u2014 both because the market is doing reasonably well and because we\u2019re gaining market share,\u201d Christiansen told Bloomberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming off a record year for sales and profits, the Lego Group plans to expand its U.S. footprint.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6050],"tags":[21732,4248,6051,21344,21336,8884],"class_list":["post-38027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lego","tag-hasbro","tag-lego","tag-lego-group","tag-lego-store","tag-mattel-inc","tag-niels-b-christiansen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116212083120231966","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}