30 April: Virgin Radio, originally called Virgin 1215, was launched nationally in the United Kingdom on 1215 kHz at 12.15pm by Richard Branson.
Interviewees have included former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Group, and Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
Lawton currently sits on the advisory council for Richard Branson’s foundation, Virgin Unite Canada, whose mandate is to unite people to tackle tough social and environmental problems with an entrepreneurial approach.
Richard Branson, founder of Virgin group of companies, commonly called Beardy by Jeremy Clarkson
Investing time heavily in green energy, battery car technology, support mission of virgin galactic, built by Richard Branson to continue develop manned space shuttle tourism.
Ayre modeled his personal brand after Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and the way Branson applied the Virgin brand to a diverse range of business ventures.
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Ayre has expressed his admiration of Virgin Group founder Richard Branson’s use of his personal brand to promote his companies and the way Branson applied the Virgin brand to a diverse range of business ventures.
Among those who have already given the charter their backing are Richard Branson, musician Peter Gabriel, Sir Ken Robinson and the Dalai Lama and, as of January 22, 2012, over 83,000 other people from around the world had affirmed it.
Some of her clients have included the NBA, NFL, British Soccer Team, Super League, Gladiators (TV Show), the Offshore Super Series, the United States All-Star Federation and International All-Star Federation, and individuals as NFL player Chris Houston, Hall of Famer Ted Ginn Sr., The Lord Mayor of London, and Sir Richard Branson, London business giant and owner of Virgin Entertainment.
In 2007 Vince ran a now famous advertisement on the back page of The Guardian newspaper inviting Richard Branson to his place for a solution to climate change and a carbon-free breakfast.
In late 2006, inspired by news of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism company (scheduled to be launched in 2009), Hsueh and Hahn completed their second feature-length script, Leo of St. George and the Air Galactic.
Phillips was then contacted by the head of Virgin Records, Richard Branson (later to start up further companies under the Virgin brand) who signed Phillips and released Lost at Sea on Virgin's subsidiary Caroline Records label.
Prior to founding the company, Trevor Neilson provided strategic counsel for several well-known philanthropists including Bill Gates, Bono, Sir Richard Branson and others.
Richard Branson escaped from his trans-Atlantic balloon but declined becoming the first lighter-than-air Goldfish.
Mandela and Sir Richard Branson planned, with Kofi Annan's blessing, a secret trip to Iraq to convince Saddam to step down, but the bombing starting just before they were to leave.
The ABC reported in 2006 that there were two new Birmoverse books in the works, one set shortly after the end of the war, and another in the alternative 1980s, said to feature a dashing young RAF pilot: Richard Branson.
Iverson was given a Laureatte Award from Aviation Week and Space Technology and secured a passenger sharing agreement from Richard Branson to feed Kiwi into Virgin flights.
On July 2013, the airline received a complaint from a passenger, which went viral on the internet and caused a reaction by Virgin Group President Richard Branson.
At a meeting of entrepreneurs, Lisa tries to persuade Nelson to stay in school, but she fails when she discovers that the attendees all left college (including Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson), and that the janitor is the only person present who did not drop out.
She played Guy Sebastian's love interest in the "Like it Like That" music video, as well as being in the inaugural advertising campaign for Richard Branson new V Australia Airlines.
The island is currently owned by Virgin Australia (formerly known as Virgin Blue) founding partners, Brett Godfrey and Sir Richard Branson.
Virgin stepped in and Richard Branson purchased the 45% of shares held by the outside investment group.
He played for London Broncos in the European Super League, and was in the starting line-up (as a prop forward) for them in the 1999 Rugby League Challenge Cup Final, led out by the club backer at the time, Richard Branson.
Richard Branson, the British billionaire entrepreneur and owner of Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin America Airways, claimed that he joined the mile high club at age 19 (c. 1969) in the plane's lavatory.
Necker Island (British Virgin Islands), a private island in the British Virgin Islands owned by Sir Richard Branson.
He has interviewed people from all walks of life including Richard Branson, Naomi Watts, Mohammed Al Fayed, Russell Crowe, John Travolta, Shane Warne, Toni Collette and many more.
Celebrities who have fronted Planet Ark campaigns include Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Newton-John, Jamie Durie, Steve Irwin, Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Rolf Harris, Layne Beachley, Shelley Craft and Sir Richard Branson.
Not to be confused with Richard Branson.
In March 2008, he served as co-host of the Ecology Summit with Sir Richard Branson on Necker Island.
His trajectory has lead to many comparisons between him and Sr. Richard Branson, the British Baron.
Richard Branson, chairman of Virgin Group, criticized Rogers' Government Regulatory Recovery Fee.
While shooting a Virgin advertisement for Olver’s company Pendragon Productions, Hicks and Olver pitches the idea of a circumnavigation to Richard Branson, who sponsored Hicks’s transatlantic row previously.
1997 - Richard Branson's Virgin empire buy a majority stake in the club (Virgin sold stake in club in 2001)
Virgin Express started on 23 April 1996, when the Virgin Group (with chairman Richard Branson) bought the Belgian leisure airline EBA (EuroBelgian Airlines) and rebranded it into Virgin Express.
Virgin Radio Lebanon is a sequel to the Virgin Radio chain launched by Richard Branson which is also part of the Virgin Group.
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In 1998 Richard Branson (head of Virgin) publicly bet Nicola Horlick (head of SG Asset Management) that her SG UK Growth fund would not beat the FTSE 100 index, nor his Virgin Index Tracker fund over three years, nor achieve its stated aim to beat the index by 2% each year.
In the United Kingdom the term "dirty tricks" became, for a while, synonymous with the British Airways campaign against rival Virgin Atlantic and the wider business interest of the airline's chairman Richard Branson.
Frost Meadowcroft's Justin Clack, writes about architecture in Richard Branson's Project magazine and Umbrella Magazine.
A summation in the City AM described Zilinskiene as: '...one hell of a formidable businesswoman... a Lithuanian-born cross between Richard Branson and Margaret Thatcher... combined perhaps with shades of Warren Buffett, whose frugality and dislike of shopping and ostentation she shares'.
Influencer is an invite-only program that features notable leaders from a vast range of industries including Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, Rahm Emanuel, Jamie Dimon, Deepak Chopra, Jack Welch, and Bill Gates.
The episode ends as the Trotter Brothers board their Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 plane to America (comically bumping into Richard Branson; "anybody would think he owned the plane" says Del).
MirCorp and RSC Energia were the first to use this strategy for space exploration, which has emerged again more recently with Sir Richard Branson’s announcement to market Scaled Composites StarShip suborbital flights.
The first White Knight Two is named VMS Eve after Richard Branson's mother Eve Branson; it was officially unveiled on July 28, 2008, and flew for the first time on December 21, 2008.
In March 2007, The Essar Group, the promoters of The MobileStore, entered into a Co-branding Agreement with Richard Branson's Virgin Group.
Built by Richard Branson in 1978, and managed by Barbara Jeffries as part of the Virgin Studios Group.
She is the sister of Richard Branson and with her former husband Robert Devereux is the owner of Eilean Shona.
The flight will take place at the beginning of 2014 in a spaceship belonging to Virgin Galactic, a Richard Branson-owned corporation.
Tom's Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie and Richard Branson and both have mentioned VeeV Spirits LLC in their case studies on business.
The club has scuba dived off Iceland's Silfra Ravine, been off-road racing with Jesse James, annually spend a week at Richard Branson's Necker Island, had simulation dogfights in Word War II-era planes, and featured sessions with Tony Hawk, John Paul DeJoria, James, and Branson.