Richard Branson

Richard Branson

English business mogul Richard Branson is best known for his Virgin Group companies, including Virgin Records and Virgin Atlantic Airways. The brash entrepreneur is also a noted adventurer, having attempted to break various world records... [more]

English business mogul Richard Branson is best known for his Virgin Group companies, including Virgin Records and Virgin Atlantic Airways. The brash entrepreneur is also a noted adventurer, having attempted to break various world records in boating and ballooning.

 
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Richard Branson partner in resort, cooking school opening on NJ estate PEAPACK-GLADSTONE, N.J. (AP) — A new luxury resort is opening on an estate in New Jersey with Sir Richard Branson as a partner. The Natirar resort will be set in a 40-room mansion on 90 acres of a 500-acre property in Somerset County, N.J. The estate, located about 45 miles from New York City, was once owned by King Hassan II of Morocco. The first phase of the project, the Ninety Acres Culinary Center, opens Dec. 1 with a restaurant, cooking school, wine school and working farm on 15 acres. The culinary center ... Read Full Story
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A new luxury resort is opening on an estate in New Jersey with Sir Richard Branson as a partner. The Natirar resort will be set in a 40-room mansion on 90 acres of a 500-acre property in Somerset County, N.J. The estate, located about 45 miles from New York City, was once owned by King Hassan II of Morocco. The first phase of the project, the Ninety Acres Culinary Center, opens Dec. 1 with a restaurant, cooking school, wine school and working farm on 15 acres. The culinary center will support local agriculture, with some ingredients grown onsite. The restaurant will offer a New ... Read Full Story
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - People scared of flying can now press a button on their iPhone to help them deal with their panic. Long-haul airline Virgin Atlantic Airways has launched an application, or app, for its Flying Without Fear course which boasts a success rate of over 98 percent. Apps are a source of information, games and other novelty ideas for users of Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The airline said in a statement that this app was designed to help people overcome fear, be it of the unfamiliar aircraft, the strange noises a plane makes, or of losing control. "Our first iPhone ... Read Full Story
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Sir Richard Branson Virgin Atlantic as founded in 1984 and Sir Richard Branson had the vision to create an airline, where people love to fly and also where people love to work. One of the unique things about Virgin Atlantic is that Sir Richard Branson is not your regular CEO which reflected in the way that he runs his airline. Virgin Atlantic is in fact the holder of every major award with recent achievements including the Skytrax 2008 World Airline Awards - World’s Best Business Class Lounge, Globe Travel Awards Best Scheduled Airline to US/Canada Favorite Airline, The Sunday Times Travel Magazine Readers Awards ... Read Full Story
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Virgin Atlantic Airways has launched a new iPhone application that would help people deal with their phobia in flying by just pressing the “iButton.” The new iButton application, according to Virgin, has over 98 percent success rate in helping people to overcome their fear in flying. The App was designed to make people comfortable in situations that they fear most like unfamiliar aircraft rides, airplane noises, and dysfunctional airplane rides. “Millions of people around the world will benefit from our very first iPhone application. Because of the new technology, we are now able to push for our program, “Flying without fear,” and help people ... Read Full Story
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HotelChatterRichard Branson To Pretty Up New Jersey With 'Natirar'HotelChatterIt looks like we may be making a trip out to New Jersey very soon. That's because billionaire fly guy himself Sir Richard Branson is opening a resort in New ...Richard Branson partner in New Jersey resort, cooking schoolThe Canadian PressRichard Branson to Open New Jersey Culinary ResortNew York Times (blog)all 18 news articles »  
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The blonde entrepreneur's beady eye turns to food, as he launches an 'epicurean oasis'. What will food lovers make of it?Depending on who you ask, Richard Branson is either a genius entrepreneur with an unerring eye for the zeitgeist or a beardy arse who slaps his self-aggrandising mug over anything that might be an innocent joy to humans, holds down any pleasure from books and music to holidays, and screws it for profit 'til it squeals. Me, I...  
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NEW JERSEY— The Times reports that Sir Richard Branson, the 261st richest person in the world, is opening a "culinary resort" reminiscent of Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Somerset County, NJ. Called Natirar, the 492 acre resort includes a ...  
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Last week, Virgin Atlantic Airways accused American Airlines of hypocrisy. Today, American and its partners accused Virgin Atlantic of media grandstanding. Virgin Atlantic had said that American and British Airways would dominate more of London Heathrow market than the combined...  
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Sir Richard Branson is a key figure in business and an inspiration to many. CXO takes a look at the major achievements through his life, so you can be as inspired as we are.  
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Two-year-old airline Virgin America touched down Wednesday in Florida, marking one of its most ambitious expansion moves yet with a lavish welcoming ceremony that included Virgin Group Ltd. founder and billionaire Richard Branson. Virgin took a cautious first... Richard Branson - Virgin Group - Virgin America - Florida - United States  
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FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AdAge.com) -- Richard Branson sat down with Ad Age to talk about the future of the airline industry, what he hopes legacy carriers can learn from Virgin America, TV as an ad medium, what marketers need to do to get through the economic downturn and, of course, commercial space travel.  
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