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...Virgin Money paid Branson £17mn for use of the Virgin brand last year. Contractually, Nationwide will have to continue to do this for another four years....
...US companies face backlash for bypassing investors on top pay A growing number of US companies — including two backed by British entrepreneur Richard Branson — are expected to face fire from investors in...
...Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson’s space tourism company, went public in 2019 via a merger with a Spac vehicle backed by the serial promoter Chamath Palihapitiya....
...They have offered a quick route to market for companies in fields as diverse as flying taxi company Joby Aviation to Richard Branson’s space tourism business Virgin Galactic....
...Centerview Partners has hired three senior bankers from BofA Securities (formerly named Bank of America Merrill Lynch) as partners, based in Palo Alto: Jack MacDonald, Gary Kirkham and Steve Miller....
...(FT) Virgin Orbit launches into space Eight months after a previous test ended in failure, Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit has put a rocket in space, demonstrating for the first time the feasibility of its...
...Sir Richard Branson Founder, Virgin Group I loved Yuval Noah Harari’s delve into our species’ past, Sapiens (Vintage), and his predictions on our future, Homo Deus (Vintage)....
...Gary Greenwood at Shore Capital said: “The premium being offered by CYBG is on the lean side with the implied valuation being only in line with our standalone fair value of Virgin Money.”...
...Fleetingly, he refers to the footballer Gary Neville’s girlfriendless years, the unhappiness of cycling coach Dave Brailsford and the ceaseless workload of business people and politicians — only to move...
...That young man was Gary Cohn – who is now president of Goldman Sachs....
...Gary David Smith, co-founder of Prism Total IT Solutions, said: “Relatively small amounts of money can be vital to the success or failure of fledgling IT businesses....
...NBNK is preparing to go up against Richard Branson’s Virgin Money and JC Flowers, the private equity firm, in a £1bn bidding war for state-owned bank Northern Rock....
...His main competitor for Northern Rock is likely to be Virgin Money, Richard Branson’s banking arm....
...A surprisingly high number have had some learning difficulties early on, such as dyslexia (true for both Richard Branson, founder of Virgin, and Ted Turner, founder of CNN, the cable news network), or may...
...“If a tree is dead, it should die because it has had its use and can make for new shoots,” says Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Atlantic....
...Virgin America, a start-up backed by Sir Richard Branson and US investors, had hoped to launch services from the same airport, but is appealing the decision by US regulators to block its licence on the grounds...
...“Virgin have been very smart in the way they have played Branson,” Ms Montgomery says....
...“If you have talent and human capital, London ain’t the place to do it, unless you are Richard Branson or some ‘mega’ who can afford a nice place in Holland Park and a driver.”...
...Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has also built on a standard core competency in markets ranging from airlines to music retailing....
...said board member Gary Chapman. “Our focus instead will be cabins with showers in first class and flat-beds in business.”...
...Richard Branson was one of my early business heroes and he was one of the reasons I got into the airline business....
...Do you welcome the potential arrival of Richard Branson into the broadcasting/platform game? Is Virgin Mobile/NTL’s vision of ‘quadruple play’ one which Sky subscribes to?...
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