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...and plays elsewhere. A sad piece in The NYTimes about Billund, Denmark, home to Lego, and the loss of its bricklayers to Mexico and the Czech Republic.

The design, promotion and marketing of Lego's colorful little plastic bricks will remain in Billund. But between now and 2009, virtually all the manufacturing will go to factories in the Czech Republic and Mexico. In the process, the number of jobs at Lego in Billund will drop to 1,600, from the current 2,500. Five years ago, Lego employed 4,000 people, who held roughly half of all the jobs in Billund.

Read the whole thing here.