Lego outperforms toy market with robust sales in Europe and North America

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Lego's sales of its colorful plastic bricks outpaced the overall toy market in the first half of the year, driven by strong demand in Europe and North...

COPENHAGEN - Lego's sales of its colorful plastic bricks outpaced the overall toy market in the first half of the year, driven by strong demand in Europe and North America, the Denmark-based toymaker said on Wednesday.

"We have performed significantly better than the overall toy market and have grabbed market share at a fairly high pace," CEO Niels Christiansen told Reuters.Lego's operating profit rose 26% to 8.1 billion crowns. "We are opening slightly fewer stores in China right now because we see that consumers there are holding back a bit," Christiansen said.

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