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• Virgin Group
• Multinational Venture Capital Conglomerate
• Consist of 400 companies
• Net worth: 5.01 billion pounds
• History
• 1970: Richard set up a mail-order record business
• 1980: Richard set up Virgin Atlantic
• 1984: Virgin Atlantic Airways
• 1999: Virgin Mobile
Why is Virgin Group ‘Exciting?’
Virgin Group and Managing Innovation
Top Management (Richard Branson) forms the
foundation and roots of the Virgin Group. (Fun, Creative,
Open)
Criteria for a business : Must have high quality,
innovative, good value for the money, challenging existing
alternatives, sense of fun.