By Jun Nam S, Harry H

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Richard Branson

• By Jun Nam S, Harry H
• ,Chloe A, Heidi B, Amy H, Alex B..

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Richard Bransons business!
In 1977 he signed the Sex Pistols and he went on
to sign many household names from Culture Club to
the Rolling Stones, helping to make Virgin Music
one of the top six record companies in the world.
With around 200 companies in over 30 countries,
the Virgin Group had now expanded into leisure,
travel, tourism, mobile, broadband, TV, radio,
music festivals, finance and health and through
Virgin Green Fund he was investing in renewable
energy and resource efficiency.
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• Richard Branson is the eldest among his sibling
  Linda and Vanessa. His brother Ted followed in
  his fathers footsteps, as a Barrister his Mother
  Eve worked in a theatre, as a glider pilot
  instructor and a flight attendant. Branson has a
  poor academic records. Contrasted with a
  brilliant performance of sports.
• Branson originally married to Kristen Tomassi
  but he got divorce and now hes married to Joan
  Templemen, with whom had two children Holly a
  doctor and Sam Branson.

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About him

• In 1992, Branson took what many saw as being one
  of his riskier business exploits by entering into
  the railway business. Virgin Trains won the
  franchises for the former Intercity West Coast
  and Cross-Country sectors of British Rail.
  Launched with the usual Branson fanfare with
  promises of new high-tech tilting trains and
  enhanced levels of service, Virgin Trains soon
  ran into problems with the rolling stock and
  infrastructure it had inherited from British
  Rail.

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World Record Attempts

• In 1998 he attempted at an around-the-world
  balloon flight by Branson, Fossett, and Lind
  strand ends in the Pacific Ocean on 25 December
  1998.
• Richard Branson made several world
  record-breaking attempts after 1985, when in the
  spirit of the Blue Riband he attempted the
  fastest Atlantic Ocean crossing. His first
  attempt in the "Virgin Atlantic Challenger" led
  to the boat capsizing in British waters and a
  rescue by RAF helicopter, which received wide
  media coverage. Some newspapers called for
  Branson to reimburse the government for the
  rescue cost.

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His Life

• He was born in 1950 and educated at Stowe School.
  It was here that he set up Student magazine when
  he was 16.In 1970 he founded Virgin as a mail
  order record retailer, and shortly afterwards he
  opened a record shop in Oxford Street, London. In
  1972 we built a recording studio in Oxfordshire
  where the first Virgin artist, Mike Oldfield,
  recorded Tubular Bells
• And thats Richard Branson!