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- UK
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 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
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Company Watch - Virgin Group
- 2008-04-07
Apr 7, 2008 Boeing is trapped in a nightmare as delays on the production of its 787 Dreamliner are causing airlines to raise hell. British Airways and Virgin Atlantic are in talks with Boeing over expected delivery delays for the 787 Dreamliner aircraft they ordered in 2007. This is...
Company Watch - Virgin Group
- 2008-02-25
Feb 25, 2008 Boeing VP-Sales Ray Conner said here that the 747-8I is a major focus of the company's sales efforts and it hopes to secure orders for the aircraft this year. ANA, China Airlines and Virgin Atlantic are considered targets. Boeing has sold the 747-8I to Lufthansa and...
Low–cost Virgin America airline hopes to take off in early 2007
- 2006-12-22
WASHINGTON AFP — A new airline called Virgin America said it had passed a major hurdle in its bid to gain approval for domestic US service, and hopes to start passenger flights by early 2007. The wannabe low-cost airline has been licensed to use the "Virgin" brand by Britain's Virgin...
Branson unveils aviation overhaul to curb global warming
- 2006-09-27
NEW YORK AFP — British tycoon Richard Branson urged the aviation industry to join his Virgin Atlantic airline in an ambitious plan to combat the potential "catastrophe" of global warming. The billionaire founder of the Virgin Group of companies said that airlines around the world had to play their part...
Virgin's Branson to build fleet of commercial spaceships
- 2005-07-28
CHICAGO AFP — British tycoon Sir Richard Branson has formed a new aerospace company to build a fleet of commercial spaceships. The Spaceship Company will be jointly owned by Branson's Virgin Group and Burt Rutan, whose SpaceShipOne won the 10-million-dollar "X Prize" for sending a privately-designed craft into space...
Virgin reels under airline turbulence.
- 2001-09-19
Sep 20, 2001 The Mercury ABIX via COMTEX -- The terrorism attacks in the US could have a substantial financial impact on Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group empire. Virgin Atlantic has retrenched 12,000 employees, 13 of its workforce. The British-based carrier will also ground...
BUSINESSWorld
- 1997-05-15
Vacation spending's up NEW YORK NYT -- Summer vacation travel is expected to grow 2 percent over last year's record, and travelers are expected to spend 2 percent more, or $1,112, on their longest trip of the summer. Those projections are based on a nationwide survey...
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