History of Virgin Virgin Trains was born on 29th of November 1996 when it was awarded the Cross Country franchise following the privatisation of British Rail‚ the franchise will last until April 2012. Along with the Cross Country line‚ Virgin also won the West Coast franchise and took control on the 9th of March 1997‚ this franchise will end in March 2012. The West Coast line was the last but one of the franchises to be handed over to the private sector‚ all of which had been completed in less
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SWOT ANALYSIS FOR VIRGIN ATLANTIC � DONE BY: FATIMA ASLAM GHULAM HUSSAIN ID: 200600347 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW: � The idea for the airline stemmed from the creator of the Virgin brand‚ Richard Branson. In 1977‚ seventeen- year-old Branson started an advisory service that flourished into Virgin mail order record company within three years. After establishing Virgin Records as one of the world’s top six record companies by the early 1980s‚ Branson launched his new creation‚ Virgin Atlantic
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SWOT Analysis of Virgin Media Virgin Media is an innovative new media company that was formed as a result of a merger between NTL and Telewest and then a re-branding as Virgin Media. Its main strength lies in the branding and the innovation that the name Virgin offers. Internally‚ Virgin Media is the only company in the United Kingdom that offers all four of the main media services‚ i.e. digital television‚ broadband‚ fixed line telephone and mobile phone packages. The ability to offer these products
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SWOT Analysis of Virgin Group 1. STRENGTHS Strong brand name. Experienced in two different kinds of distribution - Stationary trade - Mail ordering Location. - Geopolitical position is good for business. Co-existence in the region of 2 seaports and an international airport with direct possibility of export. - Variety of exports possibilities. Large land resources. - Existence of a powerful technical basis and building firms. Ecologically clean environment. - > 100
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Employed by Virgin Group From its beginning as a start-up‚ the Virgin Group still utilizes the same strategic model‚ which entails devolving from its original values and culture. Markedly entrepreneurial‚ Virgin group has no headquarters even though it has overseen an extended period of considerable growth and persistent profitability. Uniquely‚ even though lacking a specific corporate structure‚ Branson‚ his advisers and senior executives are observed to establish a team capable of guiding Virgin Group’s
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PEST Analysis of Virgin Media •Political Factor Demand for fixed line telephony is in decline‚ with the rate of decline in lines used by business nearly twice as high as that in the residential fixed telephony market. There is a trend for businesses to replace fixed line telephony with voice-over-internet-protocol‚ or VoIP‚ telephony‚ while residential customers are tending to migrate from fixed line to mobile telephony. However‚ Virgin Media’s fixed line customers may not migrate to the company’s
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Virgin Group’s brand manual says "Our people come first." Virgin realizes the importance of employees in the success of the company. They develop loyalty from their own employees in order to build their reputation. Environmental and Organizational Strategic Issues Virgin Group finds new ways to lead the airline industry on environmental issues. The airline’s brand new fleet is one of the most fuel and carbon efficient fleets being operated in the world. The Virgin Group has also plan to
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289 CASE EXAMPLE The Virgin Group Aidan McQuade Introduction The Virgin Group is one of the UK’s largest private companies. The group included‚ in 2006‚ 63 businesses as diverse as airlines‚ health clubs‚ music stores and trains. The group included Virgin Galactic‚ which promised to take paying passengers into sub-orbital space. The personal image and personality of the founder‚ Richard Branson‚ were highly bound up with those of the company. Branson’s taste for publicity has led him to
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A Character Analysis of Kerima Polotan Tuvera’s The Virgin Kerima Polotan-Tuvera’s “The Virgin” is a short story that is centered on two characters namely Miss Mijares and The Carpenter. The title “The Virgin” reflects the subject virginity which is an important and cherished value for Filipinos. A Filipina should be proud to have maintained her virginity but in the case of the thirty-four-year-old Miss Mijares‚ she is ashamed of it. In her thirty-four years of existence‚ she had never been
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THE VIRGIN GROUP CASE STUDY QUESTION 1: What examples does the case give of links between Branson’s strategy for Virgin and the environment in which it operates? The Virgin Group Ltd is a group of separately run British companies with the Virgin brand under the leadership of English celebrity business tycoon Sir Richard Branson. The core business areas are travel‚ entertainment and lifestyle‚ among others. Richard Branson’s strategy comes from his deepest inner beliefs;
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