Virgin Group

The Virgin Group describes the group of companies using the Virgin brand of British celebrity business tycoon Sir Richard Branson. The wide variety of companies includes airlines, mobile phone service providers, wine, and music retailers, amongst many others.

Some of the companies are publicly listed on various stock exchanges around the world, or are part-owned by others.

Some of the companies in the group include:

• Virgin Wines
• Radio Free Virgin
• Virgin Atlantic
• Virgin Trains
• Virgin Blue (Australian budget airline)
• Virgin Mobile
• Virgin Megastores
• Vrigin Finance
• Virgin Cola

As well as the now defunct

• Virgin Cinemas, sold to UGC Cinemas
• Virgin Radio, now a part of the Scottish Radio Group.

Virgin Records was founded by Branson, but he sold his stake in the late 1980's.