Background of VIRGIN In 1968 a guy named Richard Branson started the Student magazine and that was the starting of his revolutionary business career and from that time Branson did not have to look back ever. Now today Branson has the huge size of his business which is VIRGIN BUSINESS GROUP. This group owns more than 200 companies. “Branson” and “VIRGIN” is now a symbol of a famous brand all over the world. VIRGIN group holds a pretty number of companies. Most popular VIRGIN companies are VIRGIN Money
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This report closely examines the Virgin Group’s corporate strategy / rationale and identifies the relationships namely of strategic nature within the Virgin Empire. Virgin’s value adding qualities shall be discussed and the main issues faced by Virgin shall be identified and categorically solutions recommended respectively. Corporate Rationale The Virgin Group comprises of an assorted mix of businesses. It has its “finger in every pie”‚ so to speak. The Virgin has group diversified into 200
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Introduction 1.1 Purpose The purpose of this report was to analyze the best possible pricing strategy for the Virgin Mobile venture into the United States. 1.2 Situation Virgin is a global company that has 200 corporate entities involved in everything from planes and trains to beverages and cosmetics. The newest addition is the Virgin Mobile USA entity‚ which was created after Virgin was able to successfully penetrate the U.K. cellular market. However‚ the company was not so successful with the
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Virgin mobile pricing Document Transcript VIRGIN MOBILE USA – ‘FIRST PRICE’ STRATEGY (An analysis of the Pricing Decision alternatives that Virgin has to undertake to create an alternate customer segment and monetize their buying power)VIRGIN XTRAS – OVERVIEWThe Virgin Mobile USA service involved content‚ features and entertainment‚ called “Virgin Xtras”.Collaboration with MTV networks as it was the most recognized youth brands in the country and unparalleled reach forthe under-30 market segment:
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RICHARD BRANSON’S VIRGIN GROUP —Problems— Although certainly notorious‚ Richard Branson’s Virgin Group has experienced several problems. In the short-term‚ brand overextension has become a threat since the company has entered multiple markets. Brand overextension leads to damaging the comprehensive Virgin brand. Since the Virgin brand itself is the company’s greatest asset‚ protecting the brand image is critical. The Virgin brand image has a connotation of value and lifestyle. Due to many joint ventures
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Executive Summary Virgin Atlantic is one of the leading luxury airline and part of the Virgin Group of companies‚ a highly valued name in United Kingdom and United states. Virgin is one of the leaders in most of the industries it operates in. A major reason for the success of Virgin Air is the CEO of the Virgin group Richard Branson‚ whose vision and dynamic personality has led to one of the most talked about creation and growth of a business group. Richard has been able to use his personality
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The Virgin Suicides and the Writing Self Usually our voice for telling a story is our own writing self. A person that understands the situation at hand and speaks in a manner relevant to the situation. We don ’t normally create a separate narrator to make our writing more interesting. We simply write our thoughts and opinions to convey our ideas. But Jeffery Eugenides writing the Virgin Suicides brought out a separate part of himself to narrate for him. An entirely fabricated group to speak the
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Understanding the Ansoff Matrix in a new market: Penetration: When marketers try to sell the existing product to the existing customers‚ they engage in penetration strategy. It can be achieved in multiple ways. For example‚ by changing pricing‚ by adding minor features (new and improved!)‚ changing the packaging (shampoo sachets)‚ or highlighting alternative uses. In this commercial‚ we get to how Cadbury India is pushing for chocolates to be used as small gifts instead of more traditional sweets
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STUDENT: | Louis-Claude ROUX | PROFESSOR: | Philippe René Gillet | CASE: Virgin Mobile USA “Pricing for the first time” | DATE: 20/02/2012CLASS: MBS-Entrepreneuriat | PART I) ANSWERS BASED ON MY “GUT FEELINGS” Virgin Mobile targets the 14 to 24-year-olds market. The case lays out three pricing options. Which option would you choose and why? I would go for option number two for several reasons. The first one is that I think offer number one is not sufficiently different from the rest
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SUPERBRANDS ANNUAL 2011 SuperbrandsDigital.com virgin.com VIRGIN Virgin Holidays achieved unprecedented success in 2010 with a record 13 trophies at the British Travel Awards including the Gold Award for Large Holiday Company of the Year. It was also voted Long Haul Operator of the Year at the Travel Trade Gazette Awards and topped the tourism category in the 2010 UK Customer Services Index. Virgin is known for applying its brand values across many sectors‚ making it arguably one of
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