In an effort to cut costs, the LEGO Group is moving its brick production out of Billund, Denmark, to factories in Mexico and the Czech Republic. The number of jobs will drop from 2,500 to 1,600 by 2009.

The 30,000 8,600-inhabitant factory town has been the home of all LEGO operations since the toy building brick company was founded in the 1940s (the airport was originally built by LEGO). Headquarters and research operations will remain in Billund, as well as the LEGOLAND theme park.

[via About Geography]