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...worldwide success of his Lego toymaking business has all the ingredients of a modern-day Hans Chris tian Andersen fairy tale. An anomaly among internationally minded Danish executives, Christiansen speaks no for eign languages, bases his family-owned enterprise not in Copenhagen but in the remote Jutland village of Billund (pop. 1,300). Nonetheless, his up-from-nothing business has annual sales of more than $30 million, now accounts for almost a penny of every dollar of Danish exports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Denmark: Toys from Jutland | 12/22/1967 | See Source »

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