Virgin Blue is an Australian low-cost airline founded by the British businessman Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group. It is based in Brisbane.
Type Public - (ASX: VBA)
Founded -Brisbane, Australia, 2000
Location -Brisbane, Australia
Key people-Chris Corrigan, Chairman Brett Godfrey, CEO
Industry- Airline Products -Virgin Blue
Pacific Blue Airlines Revenue-$1.3 billion AUD (2004)
Employees-3440 (2004)
Fleet size-52 (Virgin Blue), 3 (Pacific Blue), 2 (Polynesian Blue)
Destinations-22 (Australia), 5 (Pacific Blue)
Website: www.virginblue.com.au
Virgin Radio International Launches Radio in India
Virgin Radio International has partnered with HT Media - a leading Indian media group and publisher of the Hindustan Times - to operate commercial radio stations in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore (formerly known as Bangalore) and Kolkata. HT Media acquired the necessary radio broadcast licenses in January 2006.
Virgin Radio International is now assisting HT Media operationalizes these licenses via providing radio management expertise, with a particular focus on programming. Stations launched in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore in 2006 under the name Fever 104; Kolkata is expected to launch in 2007.
Virgin Records
Parent company EMI
Founded 1972
Founder(s) Richard Branson
Distributing label Capitol Music Group (in the U.S.)
Genre(s) Various
Country of origin UK, US.
Official Website http://virginrecords.com/
Virgin Records was a British recording label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. It was later sold to Thorn EMI, and then merged with Capitol Records in 2006 to create Capitol Music Group.
Virgin Records was sold by Branson to Thorn EMI in June 1992 for a reported US$1 billion (around £560 million) , with a special non-competition clause that would prevent Branson from founding another recording company during the five years following the agreement (see the final paragraph in E.U. Merger
Decision IV/M202 of 27.04.1992).
It now faces competition from Branson's new label: V2 Records. Branson sold Virgin Records to fund Virgin Atlantic Airways which at that time was coming under intense anti-competitive pressure from British Airways. (In 1993 BA settled a libel action brought by Branson, giving him £500,000 and a further £110,000 to his airline).
Virgin Atlantic Airways
Founded-1984
Hubs-London Heathrow Airport, London Gatwick Airport,
Focus cities-Manchester Airport
Member lounge-Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse
Fleet size-37, Destinations 31
Parent company-Virgin Group
Headquarters-Crawley, England, United Kingdom
Key people-Richard Branson (Chairman), Steve Ridgway (CEO)
Website: http://www.virgin-atlantic.com
Virgin Atlantic Airways (usually referred to as Virgin Atlantic) is an airline belonging to Richard Branson's Virgin Group (51%) and Singapore Airlines (49%). It operates long-haul routes between the United Kingdom and North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. Its main bases are London Heathrow (LHR) and London Gatwick (LGW). Virgin has a smaller base at Manchester Airport (MAN) serving the USA and the Caribbean.
The company holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating License, which permits it to carry passengers, cargo, and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats.
Virgin Trains
Franchise(s): West Coast Main Line 1997 – 2012
Cross-Country 1997 – 2007 (originally 2012)
Main route(s): London - North West England - Scotland, London - West
Midlands,
South West England - North East England - Scotland (via Birmingham) London - Manchester / Liverpool Other route(s): London-Crewe-Holyhead
Fleet size: 53 Pendolino sets, 78 Voyager and Super Voyager sets
Stations: 113 (17 operated)
Parent company: Virgin Group / Stagecoach Group
Web site: www.virgintrains.co.uk
Virgin Trains is a train operating company in the United Kingdom. It is generally considered part of the Virgin Group, although the shareholding is actually split 51:49 between Virgin Group and Stagecoach Group.
The company was formed to take advantage of the privatisation of British Rail in the mid 1990s. Virgin Trains were successful in the bids for two franchises, the first being to run express train services on the West Coast Main Line (WCML).
This part of the company is called Virgin West Coast (VWC) and provides services from London Euston to the West Midlands, the North West and Scotland. The other franchise Virgin Trains obtained is called Virgin Cross-Country and runs long distance services which bypass London and link the south and south-west of England with the north of England and Scotland via Birmingham.
Virgin Mobile
Type -Subsidiary of Virgin Media Inc
Founded- 1999
Headquarters- UK
Industry-Mobile Phones-Products-Prepaid Mobile Phones
Revenue- GB£563 million (2006)
Net income- GB£66 million (2006)
Employees-1,484 (2006)
Parent-Virgin Media Inc
Website-www.virgin.com/mobile
Virgin Mobile Ltd is a mobile phone service provider operating in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States and France. It does not maintain its own network, and instead has contracts to use the existing network(s) of other providers.
In all countries, Virgin Mobile offers prepaid pay as you go service. In the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and South Africa, Virgin Mobile also offers a "pay monthly" option, which allows users to pay for bills in arrears.
Already very common in Britain at the time of Virgin Mobile's launch, prepaid
wireless service was a very small part of the U.S. wireless market (and is still, in terms of market share, much less common compared to Europe).
In 2004, the Virgin Group floated Virgin Mobile UK on the London Stock Exchange, retaining a 72% stake.
Virgin Galactic
Type Private
Founded 2004
Headquarters New Mexico, USA
Key people Richard Branson, Will Whitehorn, Burt Rutan
Industry Aerospace and space tourism
Products space tourism
Employees 9
Website www.virgingalactic.com
Virgin Galactic is a company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, which plans to offer sub-orbital spaceflights and later orbital spaceflights to the paying public.
Virgin Galactic plans to fly 500 passengers a year at about US$200,000 each, to an altitude of slightly over 100 km, with a total weightless time of 6 minutes. Only about 500 people have been above the arbitrary defined boundary of space at 100 km and gained their astronaut wings since spaceflight began in the 1960s.
Nearly all of these spaceflights have been orbital. Space tourism companies such as Virgin Galactic would increase the number of people flying higher than the defined boundary of space, adding thousands of new "astronauts".
Today, the only possible way for private citizens to reach an altitude over 100 km and therefore cross the defined space boundary is through commercial orbital spaceflights provided by the Russian Space Agency, costing roughly US$20 million for a six-day flight.
Virgin Media Inc
Type Public: (NASDAQ: VMED)
Founded NTL: 1992, Telewest: 1984
Headquarters - Corporate: New York City, USA
Operational: Hook, Hampshire, UK
Key people -James Mooney-Chairman
Stephen Burch-Chief Executive
Jacques Kerrest-Chief Financial Officer
Industry -Cable Communications, Products Cable, Television, Broadband
Telephone, Mobile phone
Revenue $6.10 billion (2005)
Employees -22,500 (2005)
Virgin Media Inc. (formerly known as NTL:Telewest, created from the merger of NTL Incorporated and Telewest Global, Inc.) is an Anglo-American company based mainly in the UK, which became the first "quadruple-play" media-company in Britain, bringing together a so-called "Quad Play" service consisting of television, Internet, mobile phone and fixed-line telephone services.
While the company has its headquarters in New York City, its activities focus heavily on the United Kingdom, with operational headquarters in Hook, North Hampshire. On February 8 2007, referred to by Virgin as V Day, the company merged the services previously marketed under the NTL, Telewest and Virgin.net brand names to use the Virgin Media brand name.
Type Public - (ASX: VBA)
Founded -Brisbane, Australia, 2000
Location -Brisbane, Australia
Key people-Chris Corrigan, Chairman Brett Godfrey, CEO
Industry- Airline Products -Virgin Blue
Pacific Blue Airlines Revenue-$1.3 billion AUD (2004)
Employees-3440 (2004)
Fleet size-52 (Virgin Blue), 3 (Pacific Blue), 2 (Polynesian Blue)
Destinations-22 (Australia), 5 (Pacific Blue)
Website: www.virginblue.com.au
Virgin Radio International Launches Radio in India
Virgin Radio International has partnered with HT Media - a leading Indian media group and publisher of the Hindustan Times - to operate commercial radio stations in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore (formerly known as Bangalore) and Kolkata. HT Media acquired the necessary radio broadcast licenses in January 2006.
Virgin Radio International is now assisting HT Media operationalizes these licenses via providing radio management expertise, with a particular focus on programming. Stations launched in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore in 2006 under the name Fever 104; Kolkata is expected to launch in 2007.
Virgin Records
Parent company EMI
Founded 1972
Founder(s) Richard Branson
Distributing label Capitol Music Group (in the U.S.)
Genre(s) Various
Country of origin UK, US.
Official Website http://virginrecords.com/
Virgin Records was a British recording label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, and Nik Powell in 1972. It was later sold to Thorn EMI, and then merged with Capitol Records in 2006 to create Capitol Music Group.
Virgin Records was sold by Branson to Thorn EMI in June 1992 for a reported US$1 billion (around £560 million) , with a special non-competition clause that would prevent Branson from founding another recording company during the five years following the agreement (see the final paragraph in E.U. Merger
Decision IV/M202 of 27.04.1992).
It now faces competition from Branson's new label: V2 Records. Branson sold Virgin Records to fund Virgin Atlantic Airways which at that time was coming under intense anti-competitive pressure from British Airways. (In 1993 BA settled a libel action brought by Branson, giving him £500,000 and a further £110,000 to his airline).
Virgin Atlantic Airways
Founded-1984
Hubs-London Heathrow Airport, London Gatwick Airport,
Focus cities-Manchester Airport
Member lounge-Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse
Fleet size-37, Destinations 31
Parent company-Virgin Group
Headquarters-Crawley, England, United Kingdom
Key people-Richard Branson (Chairman), Steve Ridgway (CEO)
Website: http://www.virgin-atlantic.com
Virgin Atlantic Airways (usually referred to as Virgin Atlantic) is an airline belonging to Richard Branson's Virgin Group (51%) and Singapore Airlines (49%). It operates long-haul routes between the United Kingdom and North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. Its main bases are London Heathrow (LHR) and London Gatwick (LGW). Virgin has a smaller base at Manchester Airport (MAN) serving the USA and the Caribbean.
The company holds a United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority Type A Operating License, which permits it to carry passengers, cargo, and mail on aircraft with 20 or more seats.
Virgin Trains
Franchise(s): West Coast Main Line 1997 – 2012
Cross-Country 1997 – 2007 (originally 2012)
Main route(s): London - North West England - Scotland, London - West
Midlands,
South West England - North East England - Scotland (via Birmingham) London - Manchester / Liverpool Other route(s): London-Crewe-Holyhead
Fleet size: 53 Pendolino sets, 78 Voyager and Super Voyager sets
Stations: 113 (17 operated)
Parent company: Virgin Group / Stagecoach Group
Web site: www.virgintrains.co.uk
Virgin Trains is a train operating company in the United Kingdom. It is generally considered part of the Virgin Group, although the shareholding is actually split 51:49 between Virgin Group and Stagecoach Group.
The company was formed to take advantage of the privatisation of British Rail in the mid 1990s. Virgin Trains were successful in the bids for two franchises, the first being to run express train services on the West Coast Main Line (WCML).
This part of the company is called Virgin West Coast (VWC) and provides services from London Euston to the West Midlands, the North West and Scotland. The other franchise Virgin Trains obtained is called Virgin Cross-Country and runs long distance services which bypass London and link the south and south-west of England with the north of England and Scotland via Birmingham.
Virgin Mobile
Type -Subsidiary of Virgin Media Inc
Founded- 1999
Headquarters- UK
Industry-Mobile Phones-Products-Prepaid Mobile Phones
Revenue- GB£563 million (2006)
Net income- GB£66 million (2006)
Employees-1,484 (2006)
Parent-Virgin Media Inc
Website-www.virgin.com/mobile
Virgin Mobile Ltd is a mobile phone service provider operating in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, South Africa, the United States and France. It does not maintain its own network, and instead has contracts to use the existing network(s) of other providers.
In all countries, Virgin Mobile offers prepaid pay as you go service. In the United Kingdom, United States, Australia and South Africa, Virgin Mobile also offers a "pay monthly" option, which allows users to pay for bills in arrears.
Already very common in Britain at the time of Virgin Mobile's launch, prepaid
wireless service was a very small part of the U.S. wireless market (and is still, in terms of market share, much less common compared to Europe).
In 2004, the Virgin Group floated Virgin Mobile UK on the London Stock Exchange, retaining a 72% stake.
Virgin Galactic
Type Private
Founded 2004
Headquarters New Mexico, USA
Key people Richard Branson, Will Whitehorn, Burt Rutan
Industry Aerospace and space tourism
Products space tourism
Employees 9
Website www.virgingalactic.com
Virgin Galactic is a company within Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, which plans to offer sub-orbital spaceflights and later orbital spaceflights to the paying public.
Virgin Galactic plans to fly 500 passengers a year at about US$200,000 each, to an altitude of slightly over 100 km, with a total weightless time of 6 minutes. Only about 500 people have been above the arbitrary defined boundary of space at 100 km and gained their astronaut wings since spaceflight began in the 1960s.
Nearly all of these spaceflights have been orbital. Space tourism companies such as Virgin Galactic would increase the number of people flying higher than the defined boundary of space, adding thousands of new "astronauts".
Today, the only possible way for private citizens to reach an altitude over 100 km and therefore cross the defined space boundary is through commercial orbital spaceflights provided by the Russian Space Agency, costing roughly US$20 million for a six-day flight.
Virgin Media Inc
Type Public: (NASDAQ: VMED)
Founded NTL: 1992, Telewest: 1984
Headquarters - Corporate: New York City, USA
Operational: Hook, Hampshire, UK
Key people -James Mooney-Chairman
Stephen Burch-Chief Executive
Jacques Kerrest-Chief Financial Officer
Industry -Cable Communications, Products Cable, Television, Broadband
Telephone, Mobile phone
Revenue $6.10 billion (2005)
Employees -22,500 (2005)
Virgin Media Inc. (formerly known as NTL:Telewest, created from the merger of NTL Incorporated and Telewest Global, Inc.) is an Anglo-American company based mainly in the UK, which became the first "quadruple-play" media-company in Britain, bringing together a so-called "Quad Play" service consisting of television, Internet, mobile phone and fixed-line telephone services.
While the company has its headquarters in New York City, its activities focus heavily on the United Kingdom, with operational headquarters in Hook, North Hampshire. On February 8 2007, referred to by Virgin as V Day, the company merged the services previously marketed under the NTL, Telewest and Virgin.net brand names to use the Virgin Media brand name.