It greeted the Virgin group with a walk through its industrial-style offices, strewn with 600 red paper airplanes.
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While the Virgin group liked Martin's idea of trying to lower flyers' anxiety by having the airline appear more "caring, " the visit ended awkwardly.
Today, the Virgin billionaire and thrill-seeker is flying high, literally and is the chairman of the Virgin Group of more than 400 companies around the globe.
The Virgin group feared its concerns--aired privately--had been overheard, a suspicion aroused when Martin President James R. (Mike) Hughes popped in and addressed a couple of those very concerns.
Earlier this week, the Virgin Group announced it was in talks with several Chinese phone operators to launch a mobile phone joint venture within the next 12 to 18 months.
Organizations like Virgin Unite, the Virgin Group's non-profit foundation , and the Carbon War Room have joined with groups like the Earth Day Network to tackle tough social and environmental problems and to raise awareness in the next generation.
For Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur and chairman of Virgin Group, the key to trendsetting has been listening.
The craft, partially owned by Virgin group overlord Sir Richard Branson and the Abu Dhabi-based investment group PJC, took off earlier today from its berth at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, where carrier-craft WhiteKnightTwo ferried it to a 47, 000 ft altitude after which its own rockets kicked in for a supersonic flight.
The craft, partially owned by Virgin group overload Sir Richard Branson and the Abu Dhabi-based investment group PJC, took off earlier today from its berth at Mojave Air and Space Port in California, where carrier-craft WhiteKnightTwo ferried it to a 47, 000 ft altitude after which its own rockets kicked in for a supersonic flight.
Elsewhere in the Caribbean, a lightning strike sparked a fire Monday that destroyed the island home of Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson.
Leave aside for a moment the corporate Punch and Judy show between First Group and Virgin and the Whitehall farce that even a scriptwriter on Yes Minister would have ditched as too ridiculous.
After 4.8 years of follow-up a primary endpoint event (the composite of MI, stroke, and death from CV causes) occurred in 3.8% of patients in the Mediterranean diet extra-virgin olive oil group, 3.4% in the Mediterranean diet with nuts group, and 4.4% of patients in the control group.
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Richard BransonWhen billionaire entrepreneur and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson had the idea of launching Virgin Atlantic, he pitched it to his fellow directors who had no previous experience in the airline business.
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Unfortunately what they didn't do was dot the "i's" and cross the "t's" when creating and using the Department for Transport's complicated economic model for assessing franchise bids - which meant that in a judicial review of the Department's decision to go with First Group, launched by Virgin, the current holder of the franchise, the government was bound to lose.
The firm - not affiliated with Richard Branson's Virgin Group - has 26 stores in France, including a flagship outlet on the Champs Elysees in Paris.
Branson's Virgin Group joined forces with the Formula 1 team just before the Australian Grand Prix and early success has seen Brawn's popularity rise.
Compared with those eating the low-fat diet, the extra-virgin-olive-oil group showed a 30% lower risk of having a heart attack, stroke or dying of heart disease after five years, while those consuming the Mediterranean diet with more nuts showed a 28% lower risk of these outcomes.
Virgin Group, which has been frustrated in trying to set up Virgin America for the past two years, might find it easier to raise the capital it needs.
This error seems to have occurred both when Virgin was eliminated from the bidding contest, and when First Group's bid was reassessed against the Department's own forecasting model for future revenues.
By extension, when First Group and Virgin made their bids to run the line that connects London with Manchester and Glasgow, it would have been reasonable to expect the Department for Transport to put a much greater weight on revenues the companies expect to generate in the first five to ten years than in the latter five years.
First Group rail boss Tim O'Toole told the MPs Virgin's suggestions that it had financially "backloaded" its bid in order to outbid its rival was "flat-out wrong".
Interpublic Group, which owns two of the agencies that pitched Virgin Atlantic, has laid off 10, 000 employees (some related to mergers) and shuttered 50 offices around the world since 2001.
Biofuels Watch, a British lobby group, worries that a craze for the stuff could see virgin land tilled specifically to grow crops such as switchgrass, whose only purpose was to be pyrolised and buried.
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Sir Richard has a 2% stake in the company, which has a 30-year brand licensing agreement with his Virgin Group.
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Virgin Mobile, a 50-50 joint venture between Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Germany's T-Mobile, parent of the One2One network, claimed year-on-year customer growth of 34%.
Mr Morgan said a working group, including representatives from Virgin Trains, Network Rail, the British Transport Police and the Welsh Assembly Government, had been formed to look into the problems.
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Similarly, Virgin Vodka, which is produced by a joint venture with the William Grant spirits group, was also launched with a fanfare in 1994.
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