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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.
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Branson took a $126 million hit to his fortune last year as he continued to fight several fires at his Virgin Group. Sir Richard Branson—who hates being called a billionaire—sees net worth ...
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 ...
Branson had unfurled a six-foot blue pennant to mark the achievement, and announced “we are throwing down the gauntlet for anyone else to make a transatlantic challenge and beat it”, [2] but the AMMM later derided his achievement, referring to Challenger as “a little toy boat”. In response to this Branson decided to commission the new ...
Virgin boss Richard Branson gave the money awarded to his staff. In March 1992, Virgin sued BA for libel at the High Court of England and Wales after Lord King claimed Virgin were just seeking publicity following the claims of "Operation Barbara". [11] [12] BA counter-sued claiming that Branson's accusations of "dirty tricks" were baseless. [13]
At a launch event in Dover in southern England, Branson said that Scarlet Lady would be based in the US and Caribbean, meaning he didn't expect it to be hit by any fallout from the coronavirus crisis.
[39] [40] Virgin founder Richard Branson said after the crash: "We do understand the risks involved and we are not going to push on blindly—to do so would be an insult to all those affected by this tragedy. We are going to learn from what went wrong, discover how we can improve safety and performance and then move forwards together," and ...