SIR RICHARD BRANSON
Sir Richard Branson is the famous business tycoon of U.K and the founder of Virgin Airlines. He is the chairman of virgin group. He launched virgin mobile brand which is India’s first nation-wide youth focused mobile service.
Richard Branson was a born entrepreneur. He showed this quality from his very teenage. Richard Branson was born in 1950, and was educated at Stowe School, where he established a national magazine called Student at the age of 16 and started a Student Advisory Centre at the age of 17 to help young people. In 1970 he founded Virgin as a mail order record retailer and after that he opened a record shop in Oxford Street, London.
Today, Virgin is one of the world's most recognized and respected brands. It has expanded itself into international retail, air travel, mobile, financial, retail, music, rail, resorts and leisure, space travel, and clean fuels through more than 200 companies’ worldwide. It has near about 50,000 people employed in 29 countries. Its total revenue around in 2006
exceeded c£5 billion (US$10 billion).
Virgin Atlantic Airways that was formed in 1984, is now the second largest British international airline operating a fleet of Boeing 747 and Airbus A340 aircraft. The airline is founded on the concept of offering a competitive and high quality service to Upper Class, Premium and Economy . Virgin Atlantic became the first commercial airline to fly a 747 on biofuel.
Richard believes that all businesses, especially those who are involved in transportation, energy and particularly fossil fuels like coal must develop environment friendly business strategies focusing to replace traditional energy with energy coming from renewable sources. This commitment is estimated to be $3 billion over the next ten years.
In February 2007, Richard announced a $25 million prize to encourage a viable technology that resulted in the net removal of anthropogenic, atmospheric greenhouse gases. In July 2007, on his and Nelson Mandela’s birthday, he joined Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, and
Desmond Tutu and announced the formation of the Elders, a group of leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world’s toughest problems.
In December 1999 Richard Branson was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s millennium New Years honours list for “services to entrepreneurship”.
Sir Richard Branson is the famous business tycoon of U.K and the founder of Virgin Airlines. He is the chairman of virgin group. He launched virgin mobile brand which is India’s first nation-wide youth focused mobile service.
Richard Branson was a born entrepreneur. He showed this quality from his very teenage. Richard Branson was born in 1950, and was educated at Stowe School, where he established a national magazine called Student at the age of 16 and started a Student Advisory Centre at the age of 17 to help young people. In 1970 he founded Virgin as a mail order record retailer and after that he opened a record shop in Oxford Street, London.
Today, Virgin is one of the world's most recognized and respected brands. It has expanded itself into international retail, air travel, mobile, financial, retail, music, rail, resorts and leisure, space travel, and clean fuels through more than 200 companies’ worldwide. It has near about 50,000 people employed in 29 countries. Its total revenue around in 2006
exceeded c£5 billion (US$10 billion).
Virgin Atlantic Airways that was formed in 1984, is now the second largest British international airline operating a fleet of Boeing 747 and Airbus A340 aircraft. The airline is founded on the concept of offering a competitive and high quality service to Upper Class, Premium and Economy . Virgin Atlantic became the first commercial airline to fly a 747 on biofuel.
Richard believes that all businesses, especially those who are involved in transportation, energy and particularly fossil fuels like coal must develop environment friendly business strategies focusing to replace traditional energy with energy coming from renewable sources. This commitment is estimated to be $3 billion over the next ten years.
In February 2007, Richard announced a $25 million prize to encourage a viable technology that resulted in the net removal of anthropogenic, atmospheric greenhouse gases. In July 2007, on his and Nelson Mandela’s birthday, he joined Nelson Mandela, Graça Machel, and
Desmond Tutu and announced the formation of the Elders, a group of leaders to contribute their wisdom, independent leadership and integrity to tackle some of the world’s toughest problems.
In December 1999 Richard Branson was awarded a knighthood in the Queen’s millennium New Years honours list for “services to entrepreneurship”.
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