Virgin Group

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Virgin group is the biggest individual group in Britain ,it established at February in 1970,by Richard Branson and Nik Powell ,Richard is the founder , the CEO of virgin group is Josh Bayliss , Peter Norris is the chairman of the group, Virgin have over 50,000 employees, the head quarter of Virgin group is in London. Its core business areas are travel, entertainment and lifestyle, and it also manages ventures in financial services, transport, healthcare, food and drink, media and telecommunications together, Virgin's businesses consist of more than 400 companies worldwide.

"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 to the 1970s. The net worth of Virgin Group as of September 2008 was £5.01 billion.The brand name "Virgin" arose when Branson and Powell were starting their first business, a record shop. They considered themselves virgins in business. Branson has described the "V" in the logo as an expressive tick, representing the Virgin seal of approval."(Wikipedia,Virgin group,2015)

• Virgin group manage many companies AirAsia X — long-haul budget airline operating from Malaysia (16% owned by Virgin Group)

• V Festival — two-day music festival held in two separate locations in the United Kingdom

• Virgin Active — a health club chain in the UK, Australia, South Africa, Spain, Singapore, Portugal, and Italy

• Virgin America — a United States budget airline based at San Francisco International Airport (25% owned by Virgin Group)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747-400 after take-off

• Virgin Atlantic Airways — an international carrier based in Crawley, West Sussex, UK (51% owned by Virgin Group)

• Virgin Australia Holdings (10% owned by Virgin Group)

  • Virgin Australia — an Australian-based airline

  • Virgin Australia Airlines (NZ) — New Zealand-based airline

  • Virgin Australia Regional Airlines — Australian regional airline

  • Tigerair Australia

  • Virgin Samoa — a Samoan-based airline (49%)

  • Blue Holidays — The holiday programme of Virgin Australia, now a joint venture between Virgin Australia

• Virgin Balloon Flights — a hot air balloon operator

• Virgin Books — publisher, retailer and distributor of books (10% owned by Virgin Group)

• Virgin Care — provides National Health Services care, formerly Assura Medical

• Virgin Connect — broadband internet access and telephony in Russian Federation

• Virgin Earth Challenge — competition to find solutions to global warming

• Virgin Experience Days — corporate and consumer experience events

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White Knight Two of Virgin Galactic in the air

• Virgin Galactic — a venture to market and operate commercial space flights, using spacecraft designed by Scaled Composites

• Virgin Gaming

• Virgin Green Fund (originally known as Virgin Fuels) — venture capital firm for investing in petroleum alternatives

• Virgin Health Bank[7] — a business enabling parents to store their baby's stem cells

• Virgin HealthMiles

• Virgin Holidays — UK travel agency and tour operator for worldwide destinations served by Virgin Atlantic and its partner companies

  • Virgin Holidays Cruises — UK cruise holiday agent

  • Travel City Direct - UK Online Travel Agent for holidays to Florida, acquired from the now defunct XL Leisure Groupafter it went into administration.

    • Travel City Direct Cruises — UK cruise holiday operator for holidays to Florida and the Caribbean

  • Bales Worldwide Ltd - Small UK Tour Operator

• Virgin Hotels — brand of hotels

  • Virgin Hotels Chicago — hotel in Chicago

• Virgin Life Care — fitness group in South Africa

• Virgin Limited Edition — exclusive hotel operator

  • Kasbah Tamadot — exclusive Moroccan holiday destination

  • Lady B — luxurious Catamaran available for Caribbean charters

  • The Lodge — ski lodge

  • Natirar — private spa located in Somerset County, New Jersey

  • Necker Island — exclusive island in British Virgin Islands for private hire

  • The Roof Gardens and Babylon — 1.5 acres (6,100 m2) open air gardens, venue, nightclub and restaurant inKensington, London

  • Ulusaba — exclusive game reserve in South Africa

• Virgin Limobike — passenger bike service in London

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Virgin Megastore in Dubai

• Virgin Megastores — entertainment retailer, operating in the Middle East

• Virgin Mobile

  • Virgin Mobile South Africa — mobile phone service provider in South Africa - joint venture with Calico Investments (55%)

  • Virgin Mobile Chile — mobile phone service provider in Chile

  • Virgin Mobile Colombia — mobile phone service provider in Colombia

  • Virgin Mobile India — mobile phone service provider in India - franchise agreement with Tata Teleservices (50%)

  • Virgin Mobile Polska — mobile phone service provider in Poland

• Virgin Money — providers of financial services

  • Virgin Money UK — a UK bank

  • Virgin Money South Africa

• Virgin Money Giving — Online fundraising website

• Virgin Oceanic — undersea leisure venture

• Virgin Racing (Formula E team) — British motor racing team participating in the FIA Formula E Championship

• Virgin Radio — radio stations in Canada, France, Turkey, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Thailand

• Virgin Rail Group

  • Virgin Trains — operator of the InterCity West Coast railway franchise in the United Kingdom (51%)

  • Virgin Trains East Coast — operator of the InterCity East Coast railway franchise in the United Kingdom (10% owned through Inter City Railways)

• Virgin Unite — charitable foundation

• Virgin Vacations — U.S. travel agency

• Virgin Voucher — monetary voucher

 

 

 

Reference list:

Wikipedia,. (2015). Virgin Group. Retrieved 9 May 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Group