sentences:  Kirkby, a Danish family trust that owns LEGO, also increased its stake, emerging as the largest shareholder, with 36%.CVC paid a price that valued Merlin at £2.25 billion – more than six times what Merlin and Legoland together were worth when Blackstone acquired them five years earlier.Blackstone's investment was by that point worth more than three and a half times what it had paid.