The last time I played with Lego’s my parents had to ask me what it was, since they couldn’t even fathom a guess as to what I had created. If only I could have put together something as amazing as the ...

Lego, with essentially just one product in endless iterations, has raced past Mattel and Hasbro — the listed US companies with stables of hundreds of different toy brands — to become by far the ...

At the same time, Lego quietly completed a transition in its family ownership — the bedrock of the company — this year. Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, a former Lego chief executive and main family ...