Article: LEGO Group Momentum Builds: 2007 Delivers Global Growth to World's Leading Construction Toy Maker.

-Company's U.S. sales grew double digit, propelling U.S. toy market and construction category shares to highest level in years-

NEW YORK, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL TOY FAIR -- The LEGO Group today announced it achieved growth in 2007 across all of its key markets, attributable to a renewed strategic focus on balancing its core business and products with some of the strongest global licenses among children.

Global performance

The company's year-end result is considerably better than anticipated at the beginning of 2007, when both decreasing sales and decreasing revenue were predicted, as increasing investment activities and ...

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