Business at work - Virgin
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UNIT 1: BUSINESS AT WORK Danny Arnett: 12 NKB Mr Plumridge Contents Task 1: Introduction I have chosen to write about Virgin in my coursework The owner of Virgin is Richard Branson. Richard Branson was born in 1950 and at age 17, while at Stowe - the famous English public school - started a student advisory service. Three years later, he founded the Virgin mail order record company and shortly afterwards opened a shop on Oxford Street, London's main shopping thoroughfare. By the early 1980s, Virgin Records was one of the top six record companies in the world. Then, in 1984, Branson got a phone call out of the blue suggesting a jumbo jet passenger service between London and New York. Branson liked the idea, much to the horror of his fellow directors who thought him crazy. Undeterred, he announced to the world that Virgin Atlantic Airways would begin operating within three months! At...


