Richard Branson

Entrepreneur

Richard Branson was born in Blackheath, London, England, United Kingdom on July 18th, 1950 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 73, Richard Branson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Richard Charles Nicholas Branson, Rich
Date of Birth
July 18, 1950
Nationality
United Kingdom
Place of Birth
Blackheath, London, England, United Kingdom
Age
73 years old
Zodiac Sign
Cancer
Networth
$5 Billion
Profession
Aircraft Pilot, Autobiographer, Balloonist, Businessperson, Entrepreneur, Film Producer, High School Teacher, Investor, Television Producer, Writer
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Richard Branson Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 73 years old, Richard Branson has this physical status:

Height
183cm
Weight
74kg
Hair Color
Blonde
Eye Color
Blue
Build
Slim
Measurements
Not Available
Richard Branson Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
Not Available
Hobbies
Not Available
Education
Not Available
Richard Branson Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Joan Templeman
Children
3 (1 deceased)
Dating / Affair
Kristen Tomassi, Judy Huxtable, Joan Templeman (1978-Present)
Parents
Edward Branson, Eve Branson
Siblings
Lindy Branson (Younger Sister), Vanessa Branson (Younger Sister)
Richard Branson Life

Sir Richard Charles Branson (born 18 July 1950) is a British business magnate, author, and philanthropist.

Branson founded the Virgin Group in the 1970s, which now manages more than 400 companies in a variety of industries.

Student.com was his first commercial venture at the age of 16.

He began a mail-order record in 1970.

In 1972, he opened Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores.

Branson's Virgin brand soared during the 1980s as he established Virgin Atlantic Airlines and enlarged the Virgin Records music label.

He founded spaceflight company Virgin Galactic, headquartered in Mojave Air and Space Port, in 2004, and he created the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane intended for space tourism. Branson was knighted at Buckingham Palace in March 2000 for "services to entrepreneurship."

He has risen to fame worldwide for his work in retail, music, and transportation (with an eye on land, air, sea, and space travel), as well as his humanitarian efforts.

He was ranked on the Time 100 Most Influential People in The World list in 2007. Forbes estimated Branson's net worth at $5.1 billion in April 2018.

Early life

Branson was born in Blackheath, London, to Eve Branson (née Evette Huntley Flindt), a former ballet dancer and air hostess, and Edward James Branson (1918–2011), a barrister. Lindy Branson and Vanessa Branson are his younger sisters. Sir George Arthur Branson, his grandfather, was a judge on the High Court of Justice and a Privy Councillor.

John Edward Branson, his third great-grandfather, left England for India in 1793; John Edward Branson's father, Harry Wilkins Branson, later joined him in Madras. Four generations of his family's Cuddalore, Tamilnadu, between 1793 and 1969. Branson was found to have 3.9 percent South Asian (Indian) DNA, likely through intermarriage, as shown by the program Finding Your Roots. Later, he said that one of his great-great-grandmothers, who was a native named Ariya.

Branson spent time at Scaitcliffe School, a Surrey prep school, before attending Cliff View House School in Sussex for a short time. He attended Stowe School, an independent school in Buckinghamshire, from the age of 16.

Branson has dyslexia and poor academic results; his headmaster, Robert Drayson, told him he'd either end up in jail or become a millionaire. Branson has also discussed having ADHD. Branson's parents were involved in his ventures from an early age. His mother was an entrepreneur; one of her most profitable ventures was designing and selling wooden tissue boxes and garbage bags; her mother was a serial entrepreneur. He began squatting in London from 1967 to 1968.

Personal life

Branson married Kristen Tomassi in 1972 and divorced her in 1979. Holly (b.) is his daughter. Sam, a 1981 (b. ), and his son Sam (b. Joan Templeman, his second wife, who he met in 1976, married 1985. They were married on Necker Island in 1989. In a interview with Piers Morgan, he and Joan had Clare Sarah, a girl who died when she was four days old in 1979.

After Hurricane Irma's arrival on Necker Island in 2017, it was declared uninhabitable. It was the second time the Necker Island home had been weakened by lightning caused by Hurricane Irene in 2011. Eve Branson's mother died of COVID-19 disorders in January 2021 at the age of 96. Her son's daughter's online presence in honor of her life.

Branson was named a minister by the Universal Life Church Monastery in 2007 to host an on-flight wedding as part of the Virgin America airline's marketing campaign for domestic flights in the United States. He served as President of the Old Stoic Society of Stowe School from 2013 to 2017.

Branson sexually assaulted her at Necker Island, according to singer Antonia Jenae, a backing singer for Joss Stone, by "putting her head between her cleavage and making boat engine noises," a behavior that is not commonly recognized as motorboating. Members of the band had been invited to a party on the island in 2010, but that "there would never have been any intention to offend or make anyone feel uncomfortable," a Branson spokesperson told The Sun newspaper. If anyone felt this way, Richard regrets it."

Branson is a veteran kitesurfer who has set two world records. The first kitesurf across the English Channel was as the oldest one to kitesurf across the English Channel. He set a Guinness World Record for most people riding a surfboard by kiting with three people attached to him, including professional kiteboarder Susi Mai and entrepreneur Alison Di Spaltro in 2014. He was also a keen cyclist in August 2016 and sustained torn ligaments and a cracked cheek.

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Richard Branson Career

Early business career

After failed attempts to grow and sell both Christmas trees and budgerigars, Branson launched a magazine named Student in 1966 with Nik Powell. The first issue of Student appeared in January 1968, and a year later, Branson's net worth was estimated at £50,000. The office for the venture was situated in the crypt of St. John's Church, off Bayswater Road, in London. Though not initially as successful as he hoped, the magazine later became a vital component of the mail-order record business Branson started from the same church he used for Student. Branson used the magazine to advertise popular albums, driving his record sales. He interviewed several prominent personalities of the late 1960s for the magazine including Mick Jagger and R. D. Laing. Branson took over full direction of Student after successfully bluffing to Powell that the workers at the magazine opposed Powell's plans to turn the magazine into a cooperative.

His business sold records for considerably less than the "High Street" outlets, especially the chain WHSmith. Branson once said, "There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration." At the time, many products were sold under restrictive marketing agreements that limited discounting, despite efforts in the 1950s and 1960s to limit retail price maintenance.

Branson eventually started a record shop in Oxford Street in London. In 1971, he was questioned in connection with the selling of records declared export stock. The matter was never brought before a court because Branson agreed to repay any unpaid purchase tax of 33% and a £70,000 fine. His parents re-mortgaged the family home to help pay the settlement.

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Richard Branson Awards

Honours and awards

  • In 1992, Branson received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
  • In 1993, Branson was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Technology from Loughborough University.
  • In the New Years Honours list dated 30 December 1999, Elizabeth II signified her intention to confer the honour of Knight Bachelor on him for his "services to entrepreneurship".
  • He was knighted by Charles, Prince of Wales on 30 March 2000 at an investiture in Buckingham Palace.
  • Also in 2000, Branson received the Tony Jannus Award for his accomplishments in commercial air transportation.
  • In 2000, Branson was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum.
  • Branson appears at No. 85 on the 2002 list of 100 Greatest Britons on the BBC and voted for by the public. Branson was also ranked in 2007's Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in The World. On 7 December 2007, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon presented Branson with the United Nations Correspondents Association Citizen of the World Award for his support for environmental and humanitarian causes.
  • On 24 January 2011, Branson was awarded the German Media Prize (organised by "Media Control Charts"), previously handed to former US president Bill Clinton and the Dalai Lama.
  • On 14 November 2011, Branson was awarded the ISTA Prize by the International Space Transport Association in The Hague for his pioneering achievements in the development of suborbital transport systems with "Virgin Galactic".
  • On 11 February 2012, Branson was honoured with the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' President's Merit Award for his contributions to the music industry.
  • On 2 June 2013, Branson received an honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from Kaunas Technology University in Kaunas, Lithuania.
  • On 15 May 2014, Branson received the 2014 Business for Peace Award, awarded annually by the Business for Peace Foundation in Oslo, Norway.
  • On 21 September 2014, Branson was recognized by The Sunday Times as the most admired business person over the last five decades.
  • On 9 October 2014, Branson was named as the No. 1 LGBT ally by the OUTstanding organisation.
  • On 29 October 2015, Branson was listed by UK-based company Richtopia at number 1 in the list of 100 Most Influential British Entrepreneurs.
  • In October 2015, Branson received the International Crisis Group Chairman's Award at the United Nations Development Programme's in Pursuit of Peace Awards Dinner.

Since the company was negotiating a deal to purchase Virgin Money for £2.9 billion, it has promised to keep all branches

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 21, 2024
Last week, the UK reached an agreement to buy Virgin Money for £2.9 billion to create a lender with 25 million clients and almost 700 branches. As part of the takeover, the building society has agreed to keep all Virgin Money branches open for at least four years. Following the merger, Virgin Money chief executive David Duffy will be replaced by Nationwide finance chief Chris Rhodes.

According to ALEX BRUMMER, the worldwide rush to buy Virgin Money could result in its members' wrath

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 18, 2024
Debbie Crosbie is a Chief Executive in a hurry. The Nationwide CEO is worried that if the mutual lender is barred from making its offer for Virgin Money within 28 days, the timetable for the Takeover Panel is lost to the mutual lender. Since beginning its quest for Virgin Money on March 7, the country has been under pressure to hand over the building society's 16 million or so members a note.

Customers in Australia are now tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket for activities that were postponed more than four years ago, according to motivational speaker Tony Robbins

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 17, 2024
Success Resources Australia, the booking agent for speakers including Virgin founder Richard Branson and Rich Dad author Robert Kiyosaki, owes $300,00 to thousands of Robbins' followers. On several occasions, the company has stated that it would refund tickets to the self-help guru's shows that were postponed during the Covid-19 pandemic, but it has since gone silent. Frustrated ticket-holders have tried all avenues to recover their money, but their pleas have fell on deaf ears, with some saying that refunds will only be given if they promise to sign non-disclosure agreements. Robbins' three followers were still owed almost $10,000 each, according to Daily Mail Australia.
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