Richard Charles

Nicholas Branson
Presented By – Sandeep Bhati

EPGPM 5
Global Business Environment
And Economics.
 Early Life
☆ Branson was born at Stone Field
Nursing Home in Black Health,
South London
☆ The Son of Barrister Edward James
Branson and Eve Branson
☆ Branson was educated at Scaitcliffe
School
☆ Branson has DYSLEXIA and had
poor academic performance as a
student,but discovered his ability
to connect with others.
 Early Business Career
☆ When he was 16 Years old, he dropped out of School to
move to London and launch Student Magazine, which did
relatively more success.
☆ At 19 founded the Virgin Mail order record company.
☆ Success in selling mail order record, opening of a record
shop then launch own record label, Virgin Records.
☆ On May25, 1973 the Richard Branson biograpghy took
on a whole new dimension with the release of Mike Old
field-the first release for Virgin Records, which quickly
became a best-seller throughout England
 Virgin
☆ 1972-80 : Founding of Virgin Records.
☆ 1981-87 : Package Holiday Industries and Virgin
Atlantic Airways Success.
☆ 1988-20 : Telecoms Ventures and Worldwide Impact.
☆ 2001-07 : Entry into Space Travel and Virgin Media.
☆ 2008-19 : Hotels, Healthcare and Charitable
Influence.
 Virgin Brand
☆ Branson didn’t run his businesses by Strategies.
☆ Instead, he keeps a ‘to do’ list, that he writes at the
beginning of each day.
☆ In recent years, Branson has taken steps to define a
strategy for the Virgin Group-
Branded Venture Capitalism
was what his strategy advisor called it.
 Failed Business Ventures
☆ Virgin Cola, Virgin Cars, Virgin Publishing, Virgin Clothing
and Virgin Brides.
☆ However, Branson holds an optimistic view of failure.
☆ He has written: "I suppose the secret to bouncing back is not
only to be unafraid of failures but to use them as motivational
and learning tools. ... There's nothing wrong with making
mistakes as long as you don't make the same ones over and
over again."
 MileStones
☆ He was knighted in 1999 for his--
“Services to Enterpreneurship”
☆ Sir Richard appears at no. 85 on the list of--
“100 Greatest Britons”
☆ Sir Richard was also ranked in 2007’s Time Magazine--
“Top 100 Most Influential People in the World”
☆ On 7 Dec 2007, United Nations Secretary Presented
Branson with the United Citizen of the World Award
for his support for environmental and humanitarian Causes.
 Main Characteristics
☆ Ability to Connect with Peoples.
☆ Innovative approach to the business.
☆ Like Challenges and always disengage difficulties.
☆ I’m not good at theory. Almost everything I’ve Learned
I’ve learned by Doing.
☆ Topping my list of gut feeling is this; business has to
give people enriching, rewarding lives, or it’s simply
not worth doing.
Thank You