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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 ...
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 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. The net worth of Virgin Group ...
If the deal goes through, Branson, who owns a 14.5% stake in the bank, is set to take home at least £420 million ($539 million). ... Virgin Money was later bought by Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank ...
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 ...
The formation of Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic in 1984 created a competitor for BA. The intense rivalry between British Airways and Virgin Atlantic culminated in the former being sued for libel in 1993, arising from claims and counterclaims over a "dirty tricks" campaign against Virgin. This campaign included allegations of poaching Virgin ...
Virgin Atlantic’s boss has warned flight cancellations due to problems with Rolls-Royce engines fitted to some aircraft will continue through the year ahead. Shai Weiss, chief executive of ...
With Virgin Voyages, the cruise line Virgin launched in 2020, Branson has done that. Although Virgin Voyages’ three boats (and a fourth set to launch in 2024), look like traditional mid-sized ...