Lego Group’s Enfield offices will not be affected by layoffs recently announced at Lego’s Billund, Denmark, complex, company spokesman Michael McNally says.
Lego on Nov. 26 announced that 66 hourly workers were being laid off in Billund due to the production slump following the holidays. But there will be no corresponding cuts in Enfield, which has no manufacturing facility, McNally said last week.
Lego has 1,500 hourly workers in Billund. Lego Group CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp said the cuts are due in part to moving production to Asia.
In recent years, the Lego Group has maintained a high level of production in Billund throughout the year, Knudstorp said. Now that the plants in Asia are operating, Billund will see more seasonal fluctuations.
Lego closed its Enfield manufacturing plant in 2000 and its distribution center there in 2006, then expanded its manufacturing plants in Hungary, Mexico, and the Czech Republic.
The closing of its Enfield distribution center and factory resulted in the layoff of 290 of the 650 workers. Lego still maintains its American corporate offices in Enfield.
