Branson.... its not just Virgin

Richard Branson

                                                    (Richard Charles Nicolas Branson)




Just a little Richard

Richard was born July 18th 1950 (age 62) in Surrey, England. Richard had a hard time with education due to his struggle with dyslexia. At 13 Branson had attended at Scaitclaffe School, he was then transferred to Stowe school, a boarding school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England. After struggling still through to the age of 15, Richard had dropped out of school to start a youth-culture magazine called "Student". The magazine was run by students for students and had sold $8000 worth of advertising in the first addition, which was launched in 1966.

Not just Virgin
(Typical thing he done)

In 1969, Richard had an idea to start a mail-order record company called "Virgin" to help fund his magazine. The business had become such a success that Branson was able to expand to his own record shop in Oxford street in London. With all the success with the business and shop, he was able to build a recording studio in Oxfordshire, England in 1973.

Virgin records had its first artist, Mike Oldfield, in 1973 with his record single "Tubular bells" with the help of Branson's team.


It stayed on the UK charts for 247 weeks, instantly became a smash hit. After Oldfield's success, Virgin records had begun signing more artists such as the sex pistols. Other groups for example, The rolling stones and Culture club have put Virgin records in one of the top six record companies in the world.

Yet again, Branson had expanded his efforts, to include the travel company, Voyager group in 1980 the airline Virgin Atlantic in 1984, and a series of Virgin Megastores.












(Choice he made)
By 1992, Virgin started struggling financially, due to this, the company was sold later that year to THORN EMI for $1 billion.
1993, Branson founded the station Virgin Radio, and later started another record company. V2 includes such artists as Power Finger and Tom Jones.

Richard's Virgin Group holds more than 200 companies in over 30 countries to this day, including the UK, the U.S., Australia, Canada, Asia, Europe and South Africa. His business has yet again expanded to include, a train company, a luxury game preserve, a
mobile phone company, and a space tourism company "Virgin Galactic". Space flights had begun in 2009.