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Vanessa Branson (sister) Isabella Calthorpe (daughter-in-law) Signature. Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate best known for co-founding the Virgin Group in 1970, who as of 2016 controlled 5 companies remaining of more than 400 previously. [1] Branson expressed his desire to become an ...
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.
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.
V2 Benelux was founded by Richard Branson in 1997 as part of the V2 International group with affiliates in USA, UK, Scandinavia, Germany, France, Italy and Benelux. In February 2007 the directors of V2 Benelux, Chris Boog and Tom Willinck, rounded off a successful management buy out together with their distributor, Bertus Distribution.
Most launches from Earth. 10 launches. Frederick W. Sturckow (USA), Space Shuttle and SpaceShipTwo (1998–2024) Note: The six SpaceShipTwo flights surpass the U.S. definition of spaceflight (50 mi (80.47 km)), but fall short of the Kármán line (100 km (62.14 mi)), the definition used for FAI space recordkeeping.
Virgin Group. 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.
In 1983, the ideas of the Now That’s What I Call Music! series were conceived in Richard Branson's Virgin Records offices, in Vernon Yard, near Portobello Road in Notting Hill, London. The co-creators behind this idea were Stephen Navin, Head of Licensing and Business Affairs at Virgin Records from 1979 to 1990, and Jon Webster, [ 2 ] General ...
The Virgin Atlantic Challenge Trophy is an award for the fastest trans-Atlantic crossing by a surface vessel, one of several such awards that have grown out of the contest for the prestigious Blue Riband of the Atlantic. The trophy was created following Richard Branson 's record-breaking Atlantic crossing in 1986 and the refusal by the American ...