VIRGIN’S GROUP CORPORATE STRATEGY DIVERSIFICATION 1. Introduction The Virgin Group is one of Britain’s biggest and successful empires in the 21st century. The company has successfully incorporated a great number of diverse industries under the Virgin brand. This includes travel‚ mobile‚ financial services‚ leisure‚ cosmetics‚ retail‚ and music businesses. Virgin has been able to dominate the British market and has therefore continued to rapidly expand into other regions such as the United
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Virgin background Virgin is an international investment group that operates in over 34 countries and that employs around 50‚000 people in about 400 companies worldwide. Its product ranges from mobile services to travel‚ finance services‚ music and many many more. It was funded in 1970 by Sir Richard Branson who started the company by selling cut price records by post through his Virgin Mail Order business. The company expended really quickly and is now a well-recognized and trusted brand all around
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1. Introduction Virgin Group is the use of Virgin as a brand name and a number of enterprises Group; it is one of the UK’s largest private companies that founded by famous British businessman Richard Branson. The Group business start with music business‚ now it develops includes tourism‚ aviation‚ and entertainment and so on. Richard Branson holds the control power over the brand Virgin‚ but its subordinate institutions are different and complicated. Each of the virgin group company is independent
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a portfolio as diverse as Google’s‚ what are the company’s core brand values? Is Google doing the right thing by diversifying into so many different product/service areas and taking on so many potential competitors (cloud computing‚ smart phones‚ high-speed Internet service‚ etc.)? Despite Google’s diverse portfolio‚ the company manages to maintain a very people-focused set of core brand values. Google’s core brand values consist of maintaining its position as the leading organizer of information
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Introduction With the foundation of Virgin Records in 1970‚ the first step was taken towards what is today Virgin Group‚ which in 2007 comprised 215 companies under its structure‚ in businesses as diverse as space travel‚ mobile telephony and fitness centers. Ever since the start‚ the image and culture of the Virgin Group have been so tightly linked to the personal image and personality of its founder‚ the high-profile entrepreneur and multimillionaire Sir Richard Branson‚ that it is
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A Treasure of a Lifetime There are many great gifts that I have received in my life blessed and beyond words. The foremost greatest gift that stands out to me the most is my son. I don’t just look at this gift as just a gift; I look at it as a blessing and a true gift from God. Each and every day I wake up I am thankful for my son. I try my best to enjoy and cherish every moment that we have together every day. Not everyone that wants children can have them so not only do I cherish every moment
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A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone‚ cell phone‚ and a hand phone) is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over aradio link while moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator‚ allowing access to the public telephone network. By contrast‚ a cordless telephone is used only within the short range of a single‚ private base station. In addition to telephony‚ modern mobile phones also support a wide variety
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Importance of Lifetime Learning Life time learning means constantly updating your knowledge‚ skills and abilities from school years to post retirement to develops your knowledge and competencies‚ and help you adapt to ever changing environment. Lifetime learning helps us adapt to changing world and environment. Lifelong learning is influenced by one’s ability‚ eagerness and motivation to learn new thing‚ may it be educational learning‚ learning related to career progress or learning from his/her
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Virgin Cola( Shaking Up the Softdrinks Market It was official. Hubert Tan was named Vice-President for Sales and Marketing of InterBev‚ the latest addition to the business empire of taipan Lucio Tan. Hubert’s choice was not a difficult decision to make. After all‚ being in his late twenties‚ he was a go-go type of person who had a passion for business. There was great expectation that his joining would contribute greatly to the Tan group of companies. Hubert obtained his business
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Education is a key element in developing the skills necessary for a successful life. Too often students are more involved earning a paycheck than spending time on their academic studies. Students need to realize that their highschool classes will prepare them for a brighter future. A highschool student’s time is very limited. Homework and extra curricular activities are time consuming and if a student adds a job into this busy schedule‚ less time is devoted to their academic studies. The effects
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