Virgin Group Ltd. is one of the world's most recognised and respected leading branded venture capital organisation and one of the most recognised brand in the world.

It has been founded in 1970 by Sir Richard Branson, who is still now the organization chairman and the company's leader and owner. He is well know to the business world for his charisma and his talent in affairs. He started opening his record shop with a friend of him. The name of the company underlines the "virginity" of Branson in affairs.

The group's core business is travel and entertaining, but in the years it has been able to differentiate it, to enter in a large number of new business, such telephony, financial services, holidays, publishing and retailing.

Nowadays the company has more than 200 branded companies worldwide, employing approximately 50,000 people, in 29 countries. Revenues around the world in 2006 exceeded £10 billion (approx. US$20 billion). Headquarters of the group are at The School House, 50 Brook Green in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.

Between the factor of success of the company, we have surely to underline the power of the Virgin name, that is the most recognised British brand in the world; Richard Branson's personal reputation; the unrivalled network of contacts and partners; the Virgin management style, that is not at all burocratic, and its flat organization. It also rapresented a critical factor of success that all the differents business operating under the Virgin, although they are owned directly by Branson, is managed separately and independently from the headquarter. Often, Branson simply licenses the brand to a company that has purchased a division from him, such as Virgin Mobile USA, Virgin Mobile Australia, Virgin Radio (now part of TIML Golden Square plc) and Virgin Music (now part of EMI).

The group's key words are: value for money, quality, innovation, fun and a sense of competitive challenge.

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