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Dow Jones Description
Holding Company
Number of Employees 30,000
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Offices of Other Holding Companies: 551112
Recent Events
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Virgin Group enters Britain's gadget help market (Reuters)
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Virgin Seeks Bank Role
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Virgin Money Chooses Jaspersoft to Support Web-Based Charitable Giving Programs --Jaspersoft's reporting and analysis applications...
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Dynamic Infrastructure sponsored by IBM
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Virgin Galactic Aiming For IPO
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Bell Canada Enterprises: Bell Mobility completes acquisition of Virgin Mobile Canada
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Richard Branson's Social Travel Site: A Strange Game of Twister or Waste of Time?
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Virgin's Branson Still Keen on Northern Rock and bmi
News & Analysis
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Virgin America Shareholders Cash Out, Airline Reports Negative 25 Percent Fourth Quarter Margin
BNET
- 2009-03-11
Things are not looking good for Virgin America now that the airline's two major US-based shareholders have apparently returned their stakes in the carrier to Virgin Group. If Virgin Group is still holding on to those stakes, then the carrier will be in violation of US-ownership requirements. If...
Virgin Media content chief quits amid sale reports
Strategy Eye
- 2009-03-05
Virgin Media's head of content, Malcolm Wall, will leave the company next month, sparking reports that Virgin has opted to sell its entire content division, which includes its 50% stake in UKTV. Following months of speculation about a sale, company...
Is Virgin America At Least 75 Percent American?
BNET
- 2009-02-12
Is Virgin America under foreign control? That's what Virgin America competitor Alaska Airlines would like the U.S. Department of Transportation to find out. The federal agency, which requires all domestic airlines to be 75 percent American-owned, was asked by Alaska to go over Virgin America's recent business dealings. ...
Company Watch - Virgin Group
- 2008-09-08
Sep 7, 2008 Polynesian Blue, the joint venture between Virgin Blue and the Samoan government, reported a pre-tax profit of NZ$9.2 million ($6.5 million) in the fiscal year ended June 30, up 71% from the NZ$5.4 million earned the prior year, the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation reported. On...
Company Watch - Virgin Group
- 2008-02-18
Feb 18, 2008 British Airways and Virgin Atlantic will together pay about USD$203 million to settle a lawsuit brought by passengers who said the airlines illegally fixed the price of fuel surcharges on long-haul trips. The agreement announced on Friday settles a two-year-old case pending in US District Court...
Do or die deadline looms for sale.
- 2008-01-31
Byline: Chancellor's bond plan leads to renewed Rock interest from Flowers, but Virgin still has the nod from the Treasury While the option of nationalising Northern Rock has not been ruled out, the latest proposal to sell the mortgage lender's estimated AGBP38bn debt as...
Ex-Lloyd's boss to head nationalised Northern Rock
- 2008-01-12
LONDON AFP — The former head of Lloyd's insurance market, Ron Sandler, said Saturday he has been appointed to lead troubled British bank Northern Rock should it be nationalised. "In the event of nationalisation, I have agreed I will go in as executive chairman," Sandler said in a statement,...
Olivant details 'simpler' offer for Northern Rock
- 2007-12-07
LONDON AFP — The Olivant group of British investors on Friday unveiled a rescue plan for troubled lender Northern Rock, saying it was much more straightforward than one submitted by preferred bidder Richard Branson's Virgin Group. "It's much simpler. It's much less fuss ... We can be there helping...
British finance chief defends Northern Rock bailout
- 2007-11-27
LONDON AFP — Britain's under-fire finance minister Alistair Darling on Tuesday defended his government's decision to support troubled bank Northern Rock, arguing it was in the best interests of the economy. His comments came on the final day of an annual conference held by the country's biggest employers' organisation,...
Virgin to fly Down Under
- 2004-06-25
Virgin is due to start flights to Sydney from Heathrow on December 7. Virgin Atlantic has confirmed the start of Australia services in time for the Christmas peak despite still awaiting final permission from regulators. The airline will commence flights to Sydney on December 7,...
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