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...Richard Branson once joked that the best way to become an airline millionaire was to be a billionaire and invest in aviation. Naturally, big investors have very aggressively pooh-pooh’d the idea....
...Entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is these days mostly active in the US. The City of London is now curiously devoid of big-name financial operators....
...He also works with Robin Hood, a New York anti-poverty charity, and as a volunteer firefighter in Scarsdale, an affluent suburb in Westchester County....
...Robin Hood chose as its headline guest Jay-Z, the rapper whose songs include Can’t Knock the Hustle....
...But combining everything from commodities to venture capital in one gauge — an “ultimate index” — has proven elusive, writes Robin Wigglesworth....
...The FT’s Robin Wigglesworth asks whether the strategy still makes sense....
...He’s like Richard Branson — he used his profile to build his business.”...
...Robin Kowalski, a psychology professor at Clemson University, who has looked at advice-giving says it can be a useful exercise....
...His attendance at the event “was a surprise” even to alliance organisers, said Sarah Prince-Robin, an official with France’s ecology ministry. “He wanted to support our new alliance,” she said....
...Richard Branson is another entrepreneur whose obsession with space travel is combined with concern about climate change; but not every problem is amenable to planetary techno-fixes....
...Yet on Thursday, a Refinitiv employee named Robin Lee gave him a run for his money, artistically speaking....
...On private Necker Island, where British billionaire Richard Branson sheltered with staff in a concrete wine cellar, entire homes have been wiped out....
...Owned by Vanessa Branson, Eilean Shona is home to a large 11-bedroom house and seven self-catering cottages....
...Planetary techno-fixes will not solve all our problems — letter from Robin Russell-Jones: Richard Branson is another entrepreneur whose obsession with space travel is combined with concern about climate...
...In 2012, Willie Walsh, chief executive of International Airlines Group, which owns British Airways, bet Sir Richard Branson a “knee in the groin” that the Virgin Atlantic brand would disappear within five...
...According to Mr Chappell, everyone killed Cock Robin but him. Mr Topp’s team serially missed sales targets, he claimed....
...In the salon of the Parks Trust of Milton Keynes, that iconic garden city, the poster says “Working For Wildlife” and a robin is shown chirping on a tree branch....
...Virgin Money, the bank that is part-owned by entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson and US billionaire Wilbur Ross, has also been forced to delay its listing, saying in a statement that it will float “as soon...
...Hauser, meanwhile, cites Sir Robin Saxby, founder of Arm Holdings, whose chips are used in 95 per cent of the world’s smartphones....
...He has the deeply obscure Robin Budenberg at the UKFI to do the dirty work for him....
...The £747m price extracted from nudity-loving Sir Richard Branson for Northern Rock by the decorously besuited Robin Budenberg of UK Financial Investments is a reasonable one....
...“We want to offer a helping hand to those customers who may be struggling financially,” said head of banking Robin Taylor....
...fragile economy - MRSA detection row reaches court - New rescue package for Greece’s latest debt crisis - Entrepreneur is closing in on Energy Company - George Osborne to fight robin...
...Qtel declined to comment directly on Vodafone Qatar’s legal action, but said the “brand franchise agreement between the Qtel Group and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group … is fully compliant with the terms...
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