Shopping on line can be easy, simple and save you lots of money. It can also take a lot of your time, frustrate you, and result in unwanted purchases. Now the same can be said for regular high street shopping, but with the vast opportunity presented by the Internet it will pay you to spend a few minutes reading this and understanding how to better optimize your Virgin Group shopping experience:
1. Compare - without doubt the biggest advantage that the Virgin Group offers shoppers today is the ability to compare thousands of Virgin Group at a time. This is a great thing, but not necessarily all the time! Too much can be daunting at times so take advantage of the great comparison sites and where possible let them do the hard work for you.
2. Research - if it has been said it will be on the internet. Ignorance is no longer a justifiable reason for buying the wrong thing. Take the time to research in detail everything that you could possible want to know about
3. Testimonials - don't know anybody that has bought a Virgin Group? Wrong! If the Virgin Group is good the internet will let you know. Use the Internet as a friend and get testimonials before you buy.
4. Questions - Got a question about Virgin Group then search the Forums, FAQ's, Blogs etc. Don't be afraid to ask .....
5. Reputation - Never heard of the company selling Virgin Group? Don't worry, no reason why you should know every company in the world, but you know someone that does! Use the internet to find out what people are saying about Virgin Group and build up a picture of their reputation for sales, returns, customer service, delivery etc.
6. Returns - still worried that even after all of the above your Virgin Group wont be what you want? Check out the returns policy. There is so much competition now that someone, somewhere is bound to offer the terms that you are comfortable with.
7. Feedback - happy with your Virgin Group then let people know, after all you are depending on others people input in your buying decision, so why not give a little back.
8. Security - check for the yellow padlock on the Virgin Group site before you buy, and the s after http:/ /i.e. https:// = a secure site
9. Contact - got a question about Virgin Group, or want to leave a comment then check out the sites contact page. Reputable companies have them and respond.
10. Payment - ready to pay for your Virgin Group, then use your credit card or PayPal! Be aware of companies that don't accept them, there may be genuine reasons but given the huge amount of choice you have when buying online there is no reason at all not to buy via credit card or PayPal.
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Virgin Group Ltd is a list of conglomerates of separately run companies that each use the Virgin brand of United Kingdom celebrity business tycoon
Richard Branson. The core business areas are travel, entertainment and lifestyle, among others. Virgin Group's date of incorporation is listed as
1989 by
Companies House, who class it as a
holding company; however Virgin's business and trading activities date to the 1970s.
Although Branson retains complete ownership and control of the Virgin Brand, the commercial set up of companies using it is varied and complex. The group is sometimes perceived as a Conglomerate (company), but this is not in fact the case. Each of the companies operating under the Virgin brand are separate entities, with some being wholly owned by Branson, while he holds minority or majority stakes in others. Occasionally, he simply licenses the brand to a company that has purchased a division from him, such as
Virgin Radio (now part of SMG plc) and Virgin Records (now part of
EMI). With a few exceptions, all of the companies began as wholly owned Virgin subsidiaries.
Virgin Brands (under various ownership)
- AirAsia X — long-haul budget airline operating from Malaysia (20% owned by Virgin Group)
- Oüı FM — rock radio station in France and Asia
- TheTrainLine — train booking service in the United Kingdom
- V Festival — two-day music festival held in two separate locations in the United Kingdom
- Virgin Active — a health club chain in South Africa, Spain, Italy and the UK
- Virgin America — a budget airline based at San Francisco International Airport, catering for domestic US flights
- Virgin Atlantic Airways — an international carrier based at Heathrow Airport, London
- Virgin Balloon Flights — a hot—air balloon operator
- Virgin Blue — a budget airline in Australia and the South Pacific based in Australia
- Virgin Books — publisher, retailer and distributor of books
- Virgin Brides — bridal wear shop in Manchester, UK
- Virgin Charter — a private jet online marketplace
- Virgin Cars — a budget car dealership and superstore in the UK (now defunct)
- Virgin Cinemas — sold to UGC, now Cineworld
- Virgin Comics — comic book producer
- Virgin Vie At Home — retailer of cosmetics, jewellery and homeware through internet, direct selling and Virgin Vie stores
- Virgin Vie — brand of cosmetics and jewelery
- Virgin Digital — online digital music retailer that will close in October 2007
- Virgin Drinks — drink manufacturer
- Virgin Cola — carbonated cola soft drink
- Virgin Vodka — alcoholic beverage
- Virgin Electronics — formerly Virgin Pulse, consumer electronics
- Virgin Experience Days — corporate and consumer experience events
- Virgin Express — a low-cost European airline, now merged with SN Brussels Airlines to become Brussels Airlines
- Virgin Films (also known as Virgin Pictures) — a short—lived film production company
- Virgin Flowers — retailer of flowers through internet
- Virgin Fuel — venture capital firm for investing in petroleum alternatives
- Virgin Galactic — a venture to market and operate commercial space flights, using spacecraft designed by Scaled Composites.
- Virgin Games — online games and gambling
- Virgin Health Bank — a new business from Branson enabling parents—to—be to store their baby's stem cells
- Virgin Holidays — UK travel agency and tour operator for worldwide destinations served by Virgin Atlantic and its partner companies, including Singapore Airlines
- Virgin Interactive (originally known as Virgin Games) — games distributor now owned by Titus Interactive
- Virgin Jewellery — jewellery arm of Virgin Cosmetics
- Virgin Limited Edition — exclusive hotels
- Kasbah Tamadot — exclusive Moroccan holiday destination
- Lady B (catamaran) — luxurious Catamaran available for Caribbean charters
- The Lodge, Verbier, Switzerland — ski lodge
- Natirar — private spa located in Somerset County, New Jersey
- Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) — exclusive island in British Virgin Islands for private hire
- The Roof Gardens and Babylon — 1.5 acres open air gardens, venue, nightclub and restaurant in Kensington, London
- Ulusaba — exclusive game reserve in South Africa
- Virgin Limobike — passenger bike service in London
- Virgin Limousines — chauffeured limousine service in San Francisco and Northern California
- Virgin Media — Provides home telephony, cable television, broadband and mobile to the United Kingdom
- Virgin Media Television — a British television network, made up of Virgin 1, Trouble (channel), Bravo (UK), Living TV & 50% stake in UKTV. Formaly known as Flextech.
- Virgin Mobile — brand used by several companies providing mobile phone service around the world
- Virgin Megastores — CD, DVD and games retailer chain with high—street and online stores
- Virgin Money — providers of financial services
- Virgin Nigeria — international, regional and domestic Nigerian airline
- Virgin Play — a video game promoter, distributor and marketer in Spain
- Virgin Radio — (now owned by SMG plc) British commercial radio station broadcast on AM, FM (London only), DAB, internet, Digital TV. Other Virgin radio brands include:
- Virgin Radio Classic Rock — (SMG plc) classic rock station broadcast on DAB, internet and Satellite TV
- Virgin Radio Groove — (SMG plc) soul, motown and disco music station broadcast on DAB, internet and Satellite TV
- Virgin Radio Xtreme — (SMG plc) rock station aimed at teenage males broadcast on DAB, internet and Satellite TV
- Virgin Radio Asia — collection of station operating in India and Thailand including Virgin Soft, Hitz, Easy FM and Oui
- Virgin Radio Italy — A new Italian radio station property of Finelco Group, started in July 2007
- Virgin Records — record label now owned by EMI
- Virgin Spa — shop chain retailing Virgin Cosmetics product
- Virgin Sun — a UK based charter airline sold to Air 2000
- Virgin Trains — a train operator in the United Kingdom
- Virgin Unite — charitable foundation
- Virgin Vacations — U.S. travel agency
- Virgin Vines — A Californian—based company, created in 2005 and producer of Red and White wines
- Virgin Voucher — staff incentive scheme
- Virgin Ware — clothes brand and retailer
- Virgin Wines — internet wine retailer sold to Direct Wines in 2005
- V2 Records — an independent music label sold in to EMI in 2006
See also
- Heaven (nightclub) - Nightclub formerly owned by Branson
- List of Richard Branson's business ventures
External links
- Virgin Group Official website of Virgin group
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{{Infobox_Company |company_name = Virgin Group |
company_logo = ] |
company_type = Private ([Private company limited by shares) |
foundation = {{flagicon|UK--> UK (Incorporation: [) |
location_city = London, England |
location_country = UK |
key_people = [Richard Branson, [Chairman
[Stephen Murphy (CEO), [CEO
[Susannah Parden, [Chief financial officer |
| products =
Beverages
Airlines
Trains
Computer games
Financial services Internet Cable TV Music
Cosmetics & Jewellery
Homeware Retail Mobile phones |num_employees = 35,000 |
revenue =
United States dollar20 billion (2006) |homepage =
http://www.virgin.com/ www.virgin.com
-->
Virgin Group Ltd is a
list of conglomerates of separately run companies that each use the Virgin brand of
United Kingdom celebrity business tycoon Richard Branson. The core business areas are travel, entertainment and lifestyle, among others. Virgin Group's date of incorporation is listed as 1989 by Companies House, who class it as a holding company; however Virgin's business and trading activities date to the 1970s.
Although Branson retains complete ownership and control of the Virgin Brand, the commercial set up of companies using it is varied and complex. The group is sometimes perceived as a Conglomerate (company), but this is not in fact the case. Each of the companies operating under the Virgin brand are separate entities, with some being wholly owned by Branson, while he holds minority or majority stakes in others. Occasionally, he simply licenses the brand to a company that has purchased a division from him, such as
Virgin Radio (now part of SMG plc) and Virgin Records (now part of
EMI). With a few exceptions, all of the companies began as wholly owned Virgin subsidiaries.
Virgin Brands (under various ownership)
- AirAsia X — long-haul budget airline operating from Malaysia (20% owned by Virgin Group)
- Oüı FM — rock radio station in France and Asia
- TheTrainLine — train booking service in the United Kingdom
- V Festival — two-day music festival held in two separate locations in the United Kingdom
- Virgin Active — a health club chain in South Africa, Spain, Italy and the UK
- Virgin America — a budget airline based at San Francisco International Airport, catering for domestic US flights
- Virgin Atlantic Airways — an international carrier based at Heathrow Airport, London
- Virgin Balloon Flights — a hot—air balloon operator
- Virgin Blue — a budget airline in Australia and the South Pacific based in Australia
- Blue Holidays — holiday program of Virgin Blue
- Pacific Blue (airline) — a subsidiary based in New Zealand
- Polynesian Blue — a subsidiary based in Samoa
- V Australia — a trans-Pacific subsidiary between Australia and the United States
- Virgin Books — publisher, retailer and distributor of books
- Virgin Brides — bridal wear shop in Manchester, UK
- Virgin Charter — a private jet online marketplace
- Virgin Cars — a budget car dealership and superstore in the UK (now defunct)
- Virgin Cinemas — sold to UGC, now Cineworld
- Virgin Comics — comic book producer
- Virgin Vie At Home — retailer of cosmetics, jewellery and homeware through internet, direct selling and Virgin Vie stores
- Virgin Vie — brand of cosmetics and jewelery
- Virgin Digital — online digital music retailer that will close in October 2007
- Virgin Drinks — drink manufacturer
- Virgin Cola — carbonated cola soft drink
- Virgin Vodka — alcoholic beverage
- Virgin Electronics — formerly Virgin Pulse, consumer electronics
- Virgin Experience Days — corporate and consumer experience events
- Virgin Express — a low-cost European airline, now merged with SN Brussels Airlines to become Brussels Airlines
- Virgin Films (also known as Virgin Pictures) — a short—lived film production company
- Virgin Flowers — retailer of flowers through internet
- Virgin Fuel — venture capital firm for investing in petroleum alternatives
- Virgin Galactic — a venture to market and operate commercial space flights, using spacecraft designed by Scaled Composites.
- Virgin Games — online games and gambling
- Virgin Health Bank — a new business from Branson enabling parents—to—be to store their baby's stem cells
- Virgin Holidays — UK travel agency and tour operator for worldwide destinations served by Virgin Atlantic and its partner companies, including Singapore Airlines
- Virgin Interactive (originally known as Virgin Games) — games distributor now owned by Titus Interactive
- Virgin Jewellery — jewellery arm of Virgin Cosmetics
- Virgin Limited Edition — exclusive hotels
- Virgin Limobike — passenger bike service in London
- Virgin Limousines — chauffeured limousine service in San Francisco and Northern California
- Virgin Media — Provides home telephony, cable television, broadband and mobile to the United Kingdom
- Virgin Media Television — a British television network, made up of Virgin 1, Trouble (channel), Bravo (UK), Living TV & 50% stake in UKTV. Formaly known as Flextech.
- Virgin Mobile — brand used by several companies providing mobile phone service around the world
- Virgin Megastores — CD, DVD and games retailer chain with high—street and online stores
- Virgin Money — providers of financial services
- Virgin Nigeria — international, regional and domestic Nigerian airline
- Virgin Play — a video game promoter, distributor and marketer in Spain
- Virgin Radio — (now owned by SMG plc) British commercial radio station broadcast on AM, FM (London only), DAB, internet, Digital TV. Other Virgin radio brands include:
- Virgin Radio Classic Rock — (SMG plc) classic rock station broadcast on DAB, internet and Satellite TV
- Virgin Radio Groove — (SMG plc) soul, motown and disco music station broadcast on DAB, internet and Satellite TV
- Virgin Radio Xtreme — (SMG plc) rock station aimed at teenage males broadcast on DAB, internet and Satellite TV
- Virgin Radio Asia — collection of station operating in India and Thailand including Virgin Soft, Hitz, Easy FM and Oui
- Virgin Radio Italy — A new Italian radio station property of Finelco Group, started in July 2007
- Virgin Records — record label now owned by EMI
- Virgin Spa — shop chain retailing Virgin Cosmetics product
- Virgin Sun — a UK based charter airline sold to Air 2000
- Virgin Trains — a train operator in the United Kingdom
- Virgin Unite — charitable foundation
- Virgin Vacations — U.S. travel agency
- Virgin Vines — A Californian—based company, created in 2005 and producer of Red and White wines
- Virgin Voucher — staff incentive scheme
- Virgin Ware — clothes brand and retailer
- Virgin Wines — internet wine retailer sold to Direct Wines in 2005
- V2 Records — an independent music label sold in to EMI in 2006
See also
- Heaven (nightclub) - Nightclub formerly owned by Branson
- List of Richard Branson's business ventures
External links
- Virgin Group Official website of Virgin group
{{Finance links| name = Virgin Group Ltd.| google = 6444452| yahoo = 41/41676| hoovers = 41676-->
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