At least 20 companies didn't turn a profit last year, including airline Virgin Express, Virgin Direct and V2, its record label.
He envisions homes stocked with Virgin products, supplied by Virgin Home Services (gas and electricity) whose owners use Virgin Direct to organize their finances.
It would help, says Rowan Gormley of Virgin Direct (a joint venture between Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Australian Mutual Provident, Australia's biggest insurer), if regulation promoted clarity.
Speaking in the Commons, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said Virgin could run a direct link to the capital from December 2013.
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Mr Osborne is understood not to have had any direct communication with Virgin Trains staff - and an officer from the Metropolitan Police, who was escorting the chancellor, is reported to have told the train manager in advance that Mr Osborne did not have the correct ticket.
Virgin Atlantic has a new code share with Russia's second largest carrier Transaero Airlines, which allows travellers to fly direct into Moscow from London on a Virgin issued ticket and connects US cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and Orlando via London to Moscow.
Perhaps more interesting than the rankings, though, was the finding that customers of MVNOs (like Virgin) ranked their services higher in account management and cost, while direct services (like T-Mobile) fared better in areas like company image and call quality.
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Virgin Trains has applied to Network Rail and the Department of Transport to run two direct trains a day from Shrewsbury to London Euston.
The Virgin boss has hinted he could back an F1 team, but refused to confirm a direct link with Honda.
Virgin Trains cancelled more than 100 services after the fire, which hit services on the direct Trent Valley line from Stafford to Rugby, which carries services from London to the north west and Scotland.
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