Atlanta Economic Times-"Lego's CEO talks about the commercial case for play."

As computerized advancement reshapes the toy market, the BBC's Leader Parlor meets with Lego's CEO, Niels B Christiansen, to examine the reason why messing about is great for youngsters, grown-ups and business.

Inside Lego's production line in Billund, Denmark, columns of embellishment machines produce small plastic pieces as robots transport around the shop floor. There are measured hands, sets of green legs, little dark haggles blossom petals. Altogether, a huge number of various shape and variety blends, that creators reuse in new and imaginative ways to make the most recent play sets. A huge number of these blocks and bounces will be created for this present year.

The name 'LEGO' is a truncation of the Danish words leg godt signifying "play well" and at its heart is the notable block, a fundamental interlocking structure block which remains basically unaltered since it was first licensed in 1958. Today the organization says it creates in excess of 15,900 unique sorts of blocks.

After guard deals during the Coronavirus pandemic, the $109bn (£84bn) worldwide toy market is confronting new headwinds, for example, contest with computer games, crushed buyer spending, and falling rates of birth around the world.

Niels B Christiansen joined Lego as Chief in 2017, of what was at that point the world's biggest toymaker, and has proceeded with the company's rising, out-selling Japanese computer game combination Bandai Namco, and significant American toy and diversion partnerships Hasbro and Mattel. Indeed, even as the worldwide toy market slowed down last year, Lego evaded the pattern, developing its income to nearly $8bn (£6bn). He's been guiding the association's computerized development, while keeping up with its solidarity in actual play.

The toymaker's most noteworthy reach, is in the US and European business sectors, yet the firm has driven into China, where it presently has more than 500 stores, as well as the Center East and Asia Pacific. Presently it's additionally focused on India. "It's where we're not that notable, yet ideally 10 or 20 years from now, that is altogether different," says Christiansen.

In any case, as it extends, Lego likewise faces a consistently developing test - what to do about its natural effect. Research by natural researchers at the College of Plymouth in the UK, for instance, appraises that Lego blocks can require between 100-1,300 years to separate in the sea. Plastic Lego pieces lost adrift from a freight transport in 1997 likewise keep on appearing on sea shores in the UK over twenty years after the fact.

"Something is significant for our customers," says Christiansen. "I get a ton of letters from kids asking, 'What can really be done? Might you at any point make the blocks out of something more sustainable?'." Lego has been grappling with how to handle the issue for quite a while and in 2021 started exploring different avenues regarding a model block produced using reused plastic jugs. Be that as it may, in 2023 it chopped out plans for its reused polyethylene terephthalate (PET) blocks - something it had trusted would permit it to lessen dependence on non-renewable energy sources - in the wake of finding they didn't decrease fossil fuel byproducts. The organization has additionally explored different avenues regarding utilizing bioplastics, and has been delivering a few gentler parts utilizing that material, yet says it is unacceptable for its famous, hard blocks. "We're making an effort not to move away from plastic," says Christiansen. "We certainly accept plastic is a fabulous material and it permits 20, 40 and 60 years of strength."

Yet, a developing collection of exploration is showing that contamination brought about by dependable plastics, what separate into little microplastics rather debasing endlessly, are penetrating pretty much every biological system on The planet. There is presently expanding worry about the effect this is having on ecological and human wellbeing.

Christiansen says Lego has been putting resources into new materials and desires to supplant a large number of its items with sans oil options. "This year, we expect to have a huge piece of our items made with a decent lump of material coming from non-fossil bases," he says. "It will be an excursion, however by 2032, we'll arrive."

There is a justification for why Lego needs strength in its items. They get played with hard, and by individuals, everything being equal.

Among the top-merchants are local subjects like Lego City and Ninjago, and coordinated efforts like Star Wars and Harry Potter. "A big part of what we do are our own IPs [intellectual property]," Christiansen makes sense of, while the other half are brands authorized from different organizations."

The organization has likewise effectively pursued adults, with its "18+" scope of model structures and blossoms, taking advantage of a more extensive supposed "kidult" pattern, which Frederique Tutt, an expert at customer conduct statistical surveying firm Circana, tells the BBC is driven by sentimentality, being a fan and the care pattern.

Lego has, nonetheless, developed a long ways past blocks and small scale figures, delivering a series of films, Network programs, computer games and versatile applications. Looking forward the greatest learning experiences are in "computerized play", especially gaming. "That is where children invest energy and where they track down revenue," Christiansen says, adding that he accepts Lego is "remarkably situated" to offer another sort of "half breed play".

Lego creates its own computer games and has collaborated the enormously well known stages Minecraft, Roblox and Fortnite. In the interim a heap of on-screen superheroes with blocky bodies and notorious oval heads are the consequence of tie-ups with Wonder and DC. A Center Highlights film out this October delineates the biography of American vocalist and maker Pharrell Williams in vivified Lego. Research demonstrates that youngsters experience mental and formative advantages through play, but grown-ups benefit as well, and that additionally applies to our work environments, where examination shows that being fun loving can support innovativeness, further develop collaboration and lessen non-appearance,

Still settled in the modest community of Billund, it was established as a family-possessed business ninety years back, and Lego's immense grounds mirrors its playfulwork culture.

With uneven engineering, a broad yellow flight of stairs, meeting spaces around an open air fire created from Lego blocks and, surprisingly, a smaller than expected fairway on the rooftop, Lego's workplaces rival any semblance of Google. The reasoning here was tied in with making a great working environment to "wow and motivate", where staff are urged by office writing to own the world "the eyes of a youngster". The fundamental "framework in play", as we call it, this measured framework with various blocks, permits you to make anything you can envision. We continue to develop it and presently we have 750 items, and a big part of the items are new consistently. Thus, indeed, the stage might show up for quite a while, however how you can manage it, and the models we have, are totally different and very significant today.

Presented By "Kennedy Lucas & Associates

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Atlanta Economic Times-"Lego's CEO talks about the commercial case for play."

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