Richard Branson Virgin Media

Richard branson loves a challenge.

Richard branson virgin media. His first business venture at the age of 16 was a magazine called student. Vg acquisition corp nyse. Sir richard charles nicholas branson born 18 july 1950 is an english business magnate investor author and former philanthropist. Richard branson s virgin group is a diverse array of businesses.

It s not clear whether sir richard still has a financial stake in the firm but it s certainly not a big one if he does. By december 2009 sir richard branson s virgin entertainment investment holdings limited held a minority holding of 21 413 099 virgin media common stock making him the third largest shareholder. Virgin media business launches voom 2016 competition for businesses to pitch their ideas to richard branson over 1million in prizes including mentoring and marketing support the competition run by the ultrafast business broadband company gives entrepreneurs and small and medium sized businesses the opportunity to pitch their ideas to richard branson to win a slice of a prize fund. Sir richard branson s virgin group has moved to deny reports his virgin atlantic airline has filed for bankruptcy as widely reported in the u k.

He founded the virgin group in the 1970s which controls more than 400 companies in various fields. Vgac comes from virgin group and its founder richard branson. In 2005 06 branson was busy assembling the virgin media group that today competes with bt and sky for entertainment. As others here have said he has nothing to do with virgin media other than possible reputational impact whilst licencing his brand name to liberty global as the current owners of virgin media.

Hi i m wondering if there s a way to contact richard branson directly if you type your subject heading into a search engine you should find a number of options to contact him. The new company was eventually christened virgin media and branson retained a 10 share in the new company. Virgin group is one of the latest large corporations launching a spac. The sentence referring to virgin australia was also amended to make clear that richard branson s virgin group has only a 10 stake in that company while the reference to dividends from virgin.

Branson expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. Current virgin group ceo josh.