Lego posts record profit despite geopolitical turmoil: CEO to AFP

Last year, the group reported a 21 percent increase in net profit, reaching 16.7 billion kroner ($2.6 billion), the highest net profit the company's ever recorded. Its revenue jumped 12 percent to 83.5 billion kroner. "I wouldn't say that the volatility and everything happening doesn't impact us, but I think we have momentum behind taking markets in a way that we can grow even so," Lego CEO Niels Christiansen told AFP in an interview. Consumer sales rose 16 percent across all markets, including in China...