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by thecleaner 2505 days ago
Does anyone else think the Virgin group companies are really bad and are simply baded on good marketing ? My read on Branson himself is that he's DT with actual billions.
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The Virgin brand means two things: the company is paying 1% of annual turnover to Virgin Group and Branson himself is happy for the company to carry the brand.

Nothing else links the various Virgin companies. By this stage the brand is basically a convenient way for companies to outsource branding while they get on with whatever their business is.

The problem there is that Virgin used to mean something but it's less meaningful now.

Virgin Media has been owned by Liberty Global since 2013
And Branson only owned 3% before that