Virgin Group CEO Richard Branson turned in his first such post Oct. 2.
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It greeted the Virgin group with a walk through its industrial-style offices, strewn with 600 red paper airplanes.
For Sir Richard Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur and chairman of Virgin Group, the key to trendsetting has been listening.
But this week it emerged Branson's Virgin Group could be a potential backer.
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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"You'll always have Virgin doing something that, in retrospect, was a dumb idea, " admits Gordon McCallum, Virgin group strategy director.
Former US President Bill Clinton and Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group are also attending the Sustainability Forum this weekend.
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Elsewhere in the Caribbean, a lightning strike sparked a fire Monday that destroyed the island home of Virgin Group Chairman Richard Branson.
It's certainly catching on in corporate circles: Virgin Group recently asked Hsieh to come in for a visit so they could pick his brain.
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.
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.
Manor founder John Booth takes on a new role as Virgin Racing's sporting director while Alex Tai, a former Virgin Group director, becomes team principal.
Companies preparing for commercial suborbital passenger service include Virgin Galactic, a U.S.-based offshoot of Branson's Virgin Group of London, and XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, Calif.
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%.
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.
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.
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.
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.
His Virgin Group began as a record label, and now sells everything from soft drinks to bridal gowns, and even runs a train service and mobile phone network.
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.
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.
At Virgin Group, valuing versatility is nothing new.
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Similar commercial spaceports have been set up in New Mexico, where Virgin Galactic, an offshoot of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, plans to fly a fleet of suborbital passenger spaceships, as well as Alaska, Virginia and California.
LinkedIn released several content-related products last year, such as an updated home page and news feed and a new publishing platform for "influencers" like Virgin Group's Richard Branson, all geared toward keeping users on its site.
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.
When Sir Richard Branson this week announced plans to enter space tourism with a company called Virgin Galactic, his Virgin group also unveiled a new online music store and a start-up airline in Nigeria that will become that nation's flag carrier.
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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.
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