Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, born 18 July 1950 in Blackheath, London. He launched a magazine called Student at age sixteen and started a mail-order record business in 1970, then opened Virgin Records in 1972, which expanded into Virgin Megastores. He founded Virgin Atlantic airline in the 1980s, Virgin Rail Group in 1997 to bid for passenger rail franchises during the privatization of British Rail, and Virgin Galactic in 2004 to pursue suborbital space tourism, building the Virgin Group into a conglomerate of companies. He was knighted in March 2000 for services to entrepreneurship.
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BirthplaceBlackheath, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London 1 Defining ContributionCo-founded the Virgin Group in 1970 and grew it into a multinational conglomerate. 1 Notable Work Cross-Tradition Connections
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Richard Branson founded Virgin Atlantic in the 1980s, building it into a major international airline as part of the Virgin Group conglomerate.
Richard Branson founded Virgin Group, expanding the Virgin brand from a record label into ventures spanning air travel, telecommunications and space tourism.
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Richard Charles Nicholas Branson was born on 18 July 1950 in Blackheath, Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, the son of Edward James
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Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate who co-founded the Virgin Group in 1970, and, as of 2016, controlled five companies.
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