RICHARD BRANSON, THE FUTURE OF MARKETING
In over 40 years of business, I’ve never stopped thinking about the customer experience. This thinking will remain at
the very heart of our marketing essence. We are firm believers in the philosophy that if we invest in the product, we can always lead our industry and others will look staid and dull when they follow. So, as everyday pioneers in aviation, we will always focus on word-of-mouth publicity. If one passenger has a great journey, then a thousand others will be part of it. Read more from Richard Branson in The Future of Marketing.. Sir Richard Branson President, Virgin Atlantic RICHARD BRANSON BIOGRAPHY
Sir Richard Branson was born in 1950, and educated at Stowe School, where he established a national magazine called Student at the age of sixteen. He started a student advisory service centre aged 17 to help young people. In 1970 he founded Virgin as a mail order record company and shortly after opened his first record shop in Oxford Street, London. Today the Virgin Group comprises over 200 independent companies, with combined annual sales of around $10 billion and total employees of around 35,000.
Virgin Atlantic, formed in 1984, has become one of the world’s leading long-haul airlines, operating across a network of 30 destinations worldwide. The airline has been consistently voted best long-haul carrier. In the 1999 New Year Honours list Richard received a knighthood for his ‘services to entrepreneurship’. |
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