Ole Kirk Research Paper

Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the founder of Lego, was born on April 7, 1891. Ole Kirk Kristiansen Started working at a farm and later got an apprenticeship with as carpenter that he completed years later. When he turned twenty four, Kirk bought the Billund Joinery Factory. They created things like doors, windows, kitchen cabinets, cupboards, coffins, chests of drawers, and hand tools. He was a religious man who went about his life thankful for the things god had granted him and tried his best in everything he did.

When a global crisis struck, Kirk’s business was hit to. Many Danish farmers lost money and revenue because of US and Uk restrictions on imports. This created a problem for Ole Kirk because farmers and smallholders made up the majority

The beginning of the Lego Group was started then. Following the trade fair, Kirk needed money to secure his business’s future, so he asked his family for a 3,000 DKK loan. When Ole Kirk decided to completely make the switch to toys he held a contest to find a new name for the company the prize being a bottle of homemade wine. The winner of the contest was Ole Kirk himself with the name “Lego.”He thought of the name by combining the danish words “Leg Godt” which meant “play well.” Within a few years Kirk had laid the foundation of one of the world’s leading toy

Ole Kirk invested in a plastic injection molding machine. The first plastic product that The Lego Group makes is a a plastic fish baby rattle. Although Ole Kirk's family didn't like the idea of plastic and even tried to switch him back to wood, he persisted though and started making the Legos we know today. They first started out as “Automatic Binding Blocks” until in 1951 when the name was officially changed to Lego Bricks. The change was because Godtfred Kirk wanted the Lego name to be better recognized throughout the world. Eventually Lego was sculpted into every brick