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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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Is Virgin America At Least 75 Percent American?
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. ...
Branson flies under the radar as Virgin America takes off
Backers of Virgin America, the USA's newest airline, spent several years trying to convince federal regulators that the carrier isn't simply an extension of British billionaire Richard Branson's worldwide aviation empire. That would be illegal under the strict limits on foreign ownership of U.S. airlines. But,...
Tycoon courts Delta exec for start-up
British airline tycoon Richard Branson has been interviewing Delta Air Lines President Fred Reid to be CEO of a new low-fare carrier that could start flying next year from Boston, San Francisco or Washington, D.C. Branson, chairman of Virgin Group, which owns London-based Virgin Atlantic Airways and budget carriers...
Virgin CEO Targets `Wealth of Opportunity' in U.S. Consumer Market.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 20--Get ready, America. British tycoon Richard C. Branson is planning a full-scale invasion of the United States. Mr. Branson, the flamboyant founder and chairman of Virgin Group Ltd., has used his native England as a launching pad...
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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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