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Virgin StartUp is the Virgin Group's non-profit company, helping entrepreneurs across the UK to start, fund and scale their business. In 2013, Branson visited Boxpark in Shoreditch, London, to launch the new organisation, revealing that he wanted to support anyone that had the same dreams and ambitions that he did as a young boy: “It was £ ...
Virgin Trains West Coast Pendolino at Birmingham New Street in September 2003. Virgin Rail Group (WCT Group since 2021) [1] is a British rail transport company that was formed by the Virgin Group to bid for rail franchises in the United Kingdom during the privatisation of British Rail in the late 1990s.
Virgin Trains (VT) (legal name West Coast Trains Limited) [1] was a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Virgin Rail Group, a joint venture between Virgin Group and Stagecoach, which operated the InterCity West Coast franchise from 9 March 1997 to 7 December 2019.
Virgin CrossCountry Class 221 in May 2006. In the mid-1990s the Virgin Rail Group was formed to bid for passenger franchises as part of the privatisation of British Rail.It successfully bid to operate the CrossCountry and InterCity West Coast franchises, with Virgin CrossCountry and Virgin West Coast commencing in March 1997. [2]
In May 2024, Virgin announced it had lodged an application with the ORR to operate services on the WCML from London Euston to Birmingham, Liverpool, Rochdale and Glasgow from December 2025. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Services would initially be operated by former Avanti West Coast Class 221s Bombardier Voyagers , before Electric Multiple Units would ...
HCRG Care Group is a private provider of community health and social services in parts of the UK, commissioned by the National Health Service and by local authorities in England. Founded in 2007 as Assura Medical , the company became majority-owned by the Virgin Group in 2010 and was known as Virgin Care .
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The subsequent merger created Virgin Mastertronic Ltd. in 1988 with Alper as its president which enabled Virgin to expand its business reach overseas. Mastertronic had been the distributor of the Master System in the United Kingdom and is credited with introducing Sega to the European market, where they expanded rapidly.