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On 21 September 2006, Branson pledged to invest the profits of Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Trains in research for environmentally-friendly fuels. The investment is estimated to be worth $3 billion. [57] [58] On 4 July 2006, Branson sold his Virgin Mobile company to UK cable TV, broadband, and telephone company NTL:Telewest for £900 million.
Virgin Atlantic, a trading name of Virgin Atlantic Airways Limited and Virgin Atlantic International Limited, is a British airline with its head office in Crawley, West Sussex, England. The airline was established in 1984 as British Atlantic Airways , and was originally planned by its co-founders Randolph Fields and Alan Hellary to fly between ...
Virgin Group [1] is a British multinational venture capital conglomerate founded by Richard Branson and Nik Powell in February 1970. Virgin Group's date of incorporation is listed as 1989 by Companies House , who class it as a holding company ; however, Virgin's business and trading activities date back to the 1970s.
Exclusive: In 1984, the Virgin Atlantic founder wondered: ... Richard Branson says airlines were ‘abysmal’ when he started Virgin. Simon Calder. June 15, 2024 at 12:41 AM.
Sir Richard Branson is offering to put up his private island, Necker Island, as collateral to save his Virgin Atlantic airline from collapsing. Branson founded the Virgin Group, which operates ...
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson discusses his latest travel venture, ... “I didn’t enjoy flying on other people’s airlines before we started Virgin Atlantic, and it was the same thing. ...
Virgin Galactic was founded in 2004 by British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, who had previously founded the Virgin Group and the Virgin Atlantic airline, and who had a long personal history of balloon and surface record-breaking activities. As part of Branson's promotion of the firm, he has added a variation of the Virgin Galactic livery to ...
Virgin Voyages looked at all aspects of cruising and made changes where Virgin founder Richard Branson and his team thought things were broken. ... So Virgin Atlantic, 40 years ago, walking on ...