Richard Branson

Richard Branson 24/01/2012

14:16 : Cannabis taxation: a win-win all round, Richard Branson tells MPs - Virgin boss appears before Commons committee to argue for regulation of drug and diversion of resources to crime-fightingThe market for cannabis in Britain should be regulated and taxed, and responsibility for drug policy moved from the Home Office to ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 21/01/2012

22:11 : Richard Branson expected to tell MPs: it's time to end the war on drugs - Virgin boss heads the list of campaigners who are set to appear at select committee hearingHealth experts have expressed concerns that the first parliamentary inquiry for 10 years into Britain's policy on illegal drugs will start by accepting testimony ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 19/01/2012

18:03 : Drugs inquiry to hear evidence from Richard Branson - Virgin boss will recommend decriminalising drug use when he appears before MPs' committeeThe Virgin group head, Sir Richard Branson, is to appear in person to argue the case for decriminalising drug use at the start of a Commons ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

12:14 : Liverpool summons Richard Branson to help its 'Capital of Entrepreneurship' - The city has ambitions to return to its glory days as the cradle for bright and profitable ideasIt's less than three weeks since the Guardian was reporting the extraordinary concept of Margaret Thatcher's government talking of 'abandoning' Liverpool ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 13/01/2012

09:18 : Usain Bolt mimics Richard Branson in Virgin Media superfast broadband ... - Jamaican sprinter mimics Virgin founder in multimillion-pound advertising campaignVirgin Media has signed Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man and Olympic gold medal-winning Jamaican sprinter, to front a multimillion-pound campaign to promote ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 09/01/2012

09:52 : Virgin's Richard Branson visits rebranded Northern Rock branch - Northumberland Street branch in Newcastle is the first of the 75 Northern Rock outlets to be rebranded as Virgin MoneySir Richard Branson will visit the first newly branded Virgin Money bank on Monday after the ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 08/01/2012

01:29 : Virgin brands: What does Richard Branson really own' - Richard Branson's Virgin group is a diverse array of businesses – few wholly owned by the unconventional entrepreneur himselfThe sprawling business empire that makes up Richard Branson's Virgin investment group consists of about 400 operations, a tangled ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

01:29 : Hardly Virgin territory: Branson enters banking's already crowded market - Virgin Money's relaunch of Northern Rock has got off to a good start - even sponsored team Newcastle beat Manchester United – but can it last?Sir Richard Branson is never known for a missing a publicity stunt ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 22/12/2011

23:20 : Sir Richard Branson's BMI fight branded 'nonsense' by Willie Walsh - The boss of British Airways-owner International Airlines Group accused Sir Richard Branson of talking "nonsense" as he saw off rival Virgin Atlantic to land BMI in a mooted £172.5m cash deal.

Source : telegraph-co-uk

10:29 : BA owner IAG beats Virgin to buy bmi - Sir Richard Branson says £172.5m deal 'screws the travelling public' by giving British Airways an even stronger grip on HeathrowBritish Airways owner International Airlines Group has beaten arch-rival Virgin ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 05/12/2011

08:41 : Aviation could switch to low-carbon fuel 'sooner than thought' - Richard Branson says aeroplanes have few 'filling stations' compared with other transport, making it easier to supply themThe world's 7,000 airlines could switch to low-carbon jet fuels much faster than other transport because aeroplanes ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 01/12/2011

22:11 : Branson wants to offer small loans to British poor - NEW YORK, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Richard Branson wants to use his recent purchase of British bank Northern Rock to offer small loans to the poor and urged Wall Street bankers to use their bonuses to help repair the ...

Source : reuters-com

Richard Branson 23/11/2011

20:00 : Response: It's nonsense to suggest Virgin's success has depended on state ... - Far from being lazy, we have built our businesses on hard work in very tough marketsAditya Chakrabortty claims we have built Virgin on the back of "taxpayer subsidies and [by] operating heavily protected businesses" (Is Richard Branson ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 20/11/2011

02:48 : Branson's blueprint to revive British economy - Sir Richard Branson is to warn George Osborne that he will create a "lost generation" of young people who will never know work unless he takes radical steps in next week's Autumn Statement to kick-start the economy.

Source : independent-co-uk

00:22 : Margareta Pagano: As Branson rocks the high street – bankers beware! - When I caught up with Sir Richard Branson on Thursday – the day Virgin Money scooped up Northern Rock – he had just stepped off a plane on the East Coast, having flown from Los Angeles where he had been partying ...

Source : independent-co-uk

Richard Branson 19/11/2011

23:59 : Victor in battle for Northern Rock faces an uphill struggle to increase ... - Fifty-year-old Gadhia - backed by Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson and American billionaire Wilbur Ross - has set out to shake up the British banking market and challenge the big five UK banks.

Source : thisismoney-co-uk

23:59 : LISA BUCKINGHAM: Richard Branson has pizzazz to be a banking hit - Sir Richard Branson frequently punches above his weight so it is conceivable that Virgin's ownership of Northern Rock will stir up a bit of competition in the banking sector.

Source : thisismoney-co-uk

Richard Branson 18/11/2011

23:23 : How business as usual helped cause our economic problems - Richard Branson admits that business, including his own, helped cause the downward spiral to turn even faster. Which is why he has a new approach: Capitalism 24902I have always tried to be socially aware and have always felt strongly ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

22:16 : Richard Branson: 'Capitalism has lost its way' - Virgin entrepreneur and new owner of Northern Rock says he wants businesses to transform themselves along ethical linesCapitalism has "lost its way" and financial profit should no longer be the main driving force behind big business, ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 15/11/2011

17:39 : Richard Branson champions employment of ex-offenders - What has prompted Richard Branson to encourage his Virgin group of companies to employ ex-offenders – even rioters'Sir Richard Branson might not immediately spring to mind as someone prepared to stand up and ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 25/10/2011

20:09 : Richard Branson puts in his bid for Northern Rock - Bids for Northern Rock need to be submitted in the next 24 hours or so. Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Money made an offer for the nationalised lender this evening. NBNK, the new bank run by the former Northern Rock ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 21/10/2011

15:37 : Constructive criticism: architecture blasts off into space - Richard Branson reaches for the stars and Zaha Hadid goes down the toiletOur dreams of blasting off for a lunar mini-break took another small step towards reality this week (even if the advent of space tourism has been announced ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 20/10/2011

20:04 : Richard Branson and Kate Winslet head for outer space - Richard Branson opens his New Mexico spaceport and who should be there but Kate Winslet and her new beau – the Virgin boss's nephew Ned RocknrollWildly encouraging developments in New Mexico, where Richard ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 11/10/2011

17:32 : US embassy cables: Richard Branson to fund plan to persuade Mugabe to ... - C O N F I D E N T I A L PRETORIA 002443SIPDISSIPDISNOFORNDEPT FOR AF/S S. HILLE.O. 12958: DECL: 07/10/2017TAGS: PREL, PHUM, KDEM, ZI, SFSUBJECT: (C) U.K. BUSINESSMAN BRANSON FUNDING "ELDER" INITIATIVE TO GET MUGABE OUT OF POWERREF: PRETORIA 2210Classified ...

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Richard Branson 27/08/2011

23:30 : Sorry, Richard Branson – we didn't care about your blaze | Barbara Ellen - The British, at long last, are showing a healthy indifference to the ways of the super-richDid anyone feel for Richard Branson and his Necker Island inferno – sympathy, empathy, anything? If not, why not? The story had all the compelling ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 10/08/2011

18:36 : Virgin Atlantic back in the black despite tough conditions - Virgin Atlantic Airways, the airline effectively put up for sale by Sir Richard Branson, warned of a bumpier ride ahead as it reversed £132m of losses to post a £18.5m pre-tax profit last year.

Source : telegraph-co-uk

Richard Branson 08/08/2011

19:58 : The race to the bottom of the ocean - Why are Richard Branson and James Cameron, among others, so obsessed with the Mariana trench?For the average billionaire, the trouble with the world these days is that it's just too small. After all, what's the point of having all ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 18/07/2011

06:29 : Will summer school for entrepreneurs uncover the next Richard Branson' - Course will feature Martha Lane Fox, Luke Johnson – and Dragon's Den-style contests in front of top businesspeopleIn a fresh attempt to kickstart the small business sector, the government has thrown its weight behind the launch of ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 04/07/2011

20:30 : Privatised rail will remain a gravy train - Richard Branson showed up the system's main flaw by grabbing an £18m dividend on the back of a publicly-funded upgradeFunny how nationalisation is back in vogue. The rail network, the electricity supply industry and ...

Source : guardian-co-uk

Richard Branson 17/06/2011

11:10 : Branson mulling Northern Rock bid - Virgin Group head Sir Richard Branson confirmed that his company's financial division would examine possible bids for both nationalised bank Northern Rock and 600 branches up for sale at Lloyds.

Source : irishtimes-com