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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — For Lego, the pieces are coming back together.


The Danish toy maker said Wednesday its revenue rose 4 percent last year to 36.4 billion kroner ($5.5 billion) after a tough 2017. Net profit increased 3.5 percent to 8.1 billion kroner ($1.2 billion).


Growth was in the “strong double-digits” in China and “in the low-single digits” in the United States and western Europe.


CEO Niels B. Christiansen said the privately-held company has been recovering from a slump in 2017, when sales fell for the first time since 2004 from record highs. He said the company had reached its goal “to stabilize the business.”


Lego had “delivered modest top- and bottom-line growth,” Christiansen said.


The company, based in Billund, in western Denmark, said it was planning to open 80 stores in 18 Chinese cities in 2019, starting with a new flagship store in Beijing which opened Feb. 22. It would also further expand its presence in the Middle East and countries with a growing middle class, namely India.


Founded in 1932, Lego’s name was invented by combining the first two letters of the Danish words “Leg godt” (play well) without knowing that that the word in Latin means “I assemble.”


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