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Virgin Records America, Inc. was the company's North American operations founded in 1986. [8] They are no longer active and were headquartered in Hollywood, California, and operated under the Capitol Music Group imprint, now also owned by UMG, since 2012. The US operations had also taken on the name Virgin Records. [9]
The Manor Studio, Richard Branson's recording studio in the manor house at the village of Shipton-on-Cherwell in Oxfordshire. In 1972, using money earned from his record store, Branson launched the record label Virgin Records with Nik Powell. The name "Virgin" was suggested by one of Branson's early employees because they were all new at ...
1987 – Branson takes Virgin Records to the United States; 1987 – The Virgin Group, along with Granada, Anglia and Pearson, founds British Satellite Broadcasting and receives a UK licence to broadcast five new TV channels by satellite in the UK. 1987 – Virgin sets up 525, a post production facility in Los Angeles, to work on high-end ...
In the 1970s Richard Branson had created a music empire, signing talent such as Mike Oldfield, Phil Collins and the Sex Pistols. With a chain of music stores as well as a record label, the young ...
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.
Branson is best known as the co-founder of the Virgin Group, which owns a massive portfolio of businesses, including in hotels, radio stations, airlines and even commercial space flight.
Richard Branson has built himself an empire. His Virgin Group enterprises stretch from the airline industry and telecommunications to space. But Branson told CNBC Make It that he never did it for ...
Virgin Megastores was a retail chain that operated in the United Kingdom from 1971 to 2007. The company was established by Richard Branson, originally as a small record shop, and became a national chain. In 2007, the company was sold to management, and was rebranded as Zavvi. Zavvi entered administration in 2008 and subsequently closed.