Eight little Virgins.(Virgin Group PLC's divisions)(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, January, 1997
VIRGIN, with an overall turnover of about [Pounds] 1.8 billion ($3 billion), has eight main divisions, which operate autonomously:
Virgin Travel Group, which owns Virgin Atlantic Airways, flying 2m passengers a year to America, Japan, Hong Kong, South Africa and Athens; Virgin Holidays, a tour operator; Virgin Aviation Services, a cargo service; and Virgin Express, a budget airline connecting Brussels and other European cities.
Virgin Retail, which is joint owner of the Our Price record-shop chain in Britain and operates Megastores, large music and entertainment media shops, in several parts of the world. Other subsidiaries include Virgin Trading Company, which owns Virgin Cola.
Virgin Communications has a book business, and several television and...
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