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Fortune
Prarthana Prakash

Lego founder's great-grandaughter ups her siblings' stakes in the iconic toymaker as she sells $930m worth of shares

kids playing with a number of different lego bricks (Credit: Brent Lewin—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Brick toy company Lego has been around for over 90 years—and the founder’s descendants still own large chunks of the multi-billion-dollar business. 

Now, one of the company’s heirs has sold shares in Lego’s family firm, called Kirkbi A/S, worth roughly 6.32 billion kroner or $930 million, Bloomberg reported Thursday. 

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