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Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate who co-founded the Virgin Group in 1970, and as of 2016 controlled 5 companies remaining of once more than 400. [1] Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age.
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 ...
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 ...
Billionaire Richard Branson founded Virgin Galactic in 2004, and it built up a backlog of 800 paying passengers. After years of missed deadlines, ...
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 ...
1. Richard Branson. Net Worth: $4 billion Branson founded the Virgin company which started as a mail-order record company and then turned into a record label that welcomed punk and new wave acts.
1987 – Richard Branson launched Mates condoms in the UK to promote condoms to young adults; 1988 – Virgin re-opens the recently acquired and re-modeled Olympic Studios in Barnes, London. 1988 – Virgin launches Virgin Classics, another Virgin international record label specializing in high-quality classical music.
Virgin Records is a British record label owned by Universal Music Group.They were originally founded as a British independent record label in 1972 by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman.