<Li> Lego Brazil is established . </Li> <Li> Lego Korea is established . </Li> <Li> 1985: <Ul> <Li> Light & Sound sets are introduced . </Li> <Li> Lego company grows to 5,000 employees worldwide; 3,000 of them being in Billund . </Li> <Li> The gearstick is introduced . </Li> <Li> Danish Foreign Minister, Uffe Ellemann - Jensen, opens the LEGO Centre at Birkenhead Point in Sydney Australia, the first permanent LEGO shop outside Billund </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Ul> <Li> Light & Sound sets are introduced . </Li> <Li> Lego company grows to 5,000 employees worldwide; 3,000 of them being in Billund . </Li> <Li> The gearstick is introduced . </Li> <Li> Danish Foreign Minister, Uffe Ellemann - Jensen, opens the LEGO Centre at Birkenhead Point in Sydney Australia, the first permanent LEGO shop outside Billund </Li> </Ul>

The lego company was floated on the danish stock exchange in 1979