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Virgin Books. Virgin Books è una casa editrice britannica. È controllata al 90% dal gruppo editoriale Random House e al 10% da Virgin Group, la società originariamente fondata da Richard Branson come casa discografica.
Virgin Books; Status: Active: Founded: 1979 () Founder: Richard Branson: Country of origin: United Kingdom: Headquarters location: London: Distribution: The Book Service: Publication types: Books: Owner(s) Random House (90%) Virgin Group (10%) Official website: www.penguin.co.uk /company /publishers /ebury /virgin-books.html
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Virgin Books launched in 1979 as a rock music publisher linked to Virgin Records. It’s now a home for business books with an entrepreneurial spark. Our authors include tech titan Peter Thiel, bestselling business reporter Ashlee Vance and, of course, Richard Branson.
Virgin Books - casa editrice e distributore di libri. Virgin Brides - negozio di abiti da sposa a Manchester. Virgin Charter - compagnia di jet privati a noleggio. Virgin Comics - Produttore di fumetti. Virgin Cosmetics - catena di negozi di cosmetici e gioielli. Virgin Digital - distributore in linea di musica digitale. Virgin Experience Days.
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Branson's early business ventures
Richard Branson and Nik Powell had initially run a small record shop called Virgin Records and Tapes on Notting Hill Gate, London, specialising particularly in "krautrock" imports, and offering bean bags and free vegetarian food for the benefit of customers listening to the music on offer. After making the shop into a success, they turned their business into a fully fledged record label, Virgin Records. The name Virgin, according to Branson (in his autobiography), arose from a colleague of hi...
Virgin Megastores
Virgin's first formal store opened on London's Oxford Street in January or February 1971 (exact date uncertain). In 1979 the company opened their first Megastore at the end of Oxford Street and Marble Arch. Virgin Megastores and Virgin Records operated as entirely separate entities, like many of the other Virgin companies. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Virgin Megastores opened over 100 stores in the UK, and many others around the world, including expansion into Asia Pacific and North America...
Product range
Virgin shops have a wide selection of CDs, games, books, DVDs, vinyl records, magazines, portable media players, accessories and additional products such as calendars, board games and Virginbranded items. Larger stores also stock electronic equipment and computer peripherals. Note that not all of these product categories are stocked by all Virgin shops, though the larger stores do generally stock the full product range. In 2003, all US Stores increased their focus on multiple fashion categori...
In 2005, Virgin Digital was launched to cater for those that bought their music digitally or wanted to rip and burn their current music collection. This is designed to add to the services provided by Virgin, rather than replace the Megastores. The download service faced some criticism from consumer groups due to its incompatibility with the popular...
Arab world
The Azadea Group of Beirut, Lebanon has an exclusive license since 2001 to operate Virgin Megastores in many countries within the Middle East, except for countries which already have a franchise. Operating as Virgin Megastores Middle East, Azadea has stores in UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, and Jordan. Megastores of Lebanon S.A.L. has an exclusive franchise to operate Virgin Megastores in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. Best Financière (Label Vie Carrefour) of Rabat has an exclusive license to...
Virgin Books and Music is a Virgin-branded entertainment retail chain exclusive to airports and travel locations, operated by the Lagardère Services division of the French conglomerate Lagardère Group. Such stores have a much smaller size than Virgin Megastores and currently operate in 10 countries: Canada, China, Germany, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco,...
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