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International Entrepreneur: Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson

Sir Richard Branson is a British business magnate and philanthropist who co-founded the Virgin Group, a conglomerate of over 400 companies in various industries. He started his first business, a recording shop called Virgin Records in the late 1960s and expanded into the airline and rail industries in the 1980s and 1990s. Branson also founded Virgin Galactic to pursue space tourism. He has received numerous awards for his business success and philanthropic work through charities focused on wildlife, the environment, health issues, and children's causes. Branson has pledged billions from his businesses to support efforts addressing global warming.

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International Entrepreneur: Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson

Sir Richard Branson is a British business magnate and philanthropist who co-founded the Virgin Group, a conglomerate of over 400 companies in various industries. He started his first business, a recording shop called Virgin Records in the late 1960s and expanded into the airline and rail industries in the 1980s and 1990s. Branson also founded Virgin Galactic to pursue space tourism. He has received numerous awards for his business success and philanthropic work through charities focused on wildlife, the environment, health issues, and children's causes. Branson has pledged billions from his businesses to support efforts addressing global warming.

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International Entrepreneur

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson


Business Magnate, Investor, Author, Philanthropist &
Co-Founder of Virgin Group of companies
Presented By-
Chaitali Arware – 01
Abhishek Jha – 03
Pratiksha Dhakate – 11
Omkar Mohite – 31
Kevin Shah – 39
Shweta Singh – 51
Journey to Success
 Recording Shop - Virgin Records
 In late 80’s - Virgin group of Airlines
 Virgin Trains won the franchisee from
British Rail
 In 2004, started Virgin Galactic ‘a new
space tourism’ along with Microsoft co-
founders
 Virgin Health Bank, Virgin Mobiles,
Virgin Megastores, Virgin Hotels, Virgin
Animation and the list goes on…
 Owns 300 plus companies in 30 countries
Achievements/ Awards
 Most Admired Business Person over
the last Five Decades by The
Sunday Times
 Business for Peace Award, Oslo,
Norway

 Listed No. 1 in the list of 100


Most Influential British
Entrepreneurs by UK-based
company Richtopia
Philanthropic Works
 At age of 17, started his first charity - Student Valley Centre
 Has pledged $3 billion transport profits to fight global
warming
 Formed The Elders – a small group of leaders working to solve
global conflicts
Charities and Foundations
 African Wildlife Foundation  Small Steps Project
 Save the Elephants  Cancer Research, UK
 Avoided Deforestation  Stand Up To Cancer
Partners  Children with AIDS
 Charity: Water  The Elders
 Water.org  Virgin Unite
 Caudwell Children
Thank You

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