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About this book
First published in 1994 and now available as an ebook.
This edition does not include illustrations.
Richard Branson is unique among today's folk heroes. Which other self-made British billionaire could lay claim to the highest esteem of our school children? Which other company chairman could be referred to by former BA Chairman Lord King as a 'pirate', having launched an airline largely on the profits of a pop song, and then go on to strike terror into the hearts of Coca-Cola and Pepsi by repackaging a branded cola? Only Branson. He is the everyman entrepreneur of our times: half marketing genius, half motivational wizard.
'Virgin King' explains how Branson started a mail-order record business in 1969 and ended up with a corporate conglomerate and riches beyond his dreams today. In the first fully independent, unauthorised account of one of the great success stories of our time, Tim Jackson reveals how a public-school drop-out has found the key to presenting aggressive business acumen with a friendly face. 'Virgin King' is the compelling history of both a private business empire and the man at its centre.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue: Concealing the Art
- 1. 1969: Easy Work, Good Money
- 2. One Per Cent of Tubular Bells
- 3. Broken Bottles
- 4. Media Mogul
- 5. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
- 6. Dear Randolph
- 7. To Market, To Market
- 8. ‘Too Liberal a Use of the Lawyers’
- 9. The Little Boys and Their Boats
- 10. Hales and the Lionheart
- 11. Enlightened Capitalism
- 12. ‘I’ve Got to Believe You’re Serious about It’
- 13. Hot Air
- 14. Flying Across Two Oceans
- 15. Recovery in Woodstock Street
- 16. A Man of Property
- 17. Branson Succumbs to Takeover Fever
- 18. Loos, Booze and Upper Class
- 19. The Price of Privacy
- 20. Playing at Retailing
- 21. How John Thornton Earned His $3m
- 22. The BA Bonus
- 23. Heathrow Airport and the Slot Machine
- 24. A Matter of Timing
- 25. The £40m Wager
- Epilogue
- Keep Reading
- Chronology
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Other Books By
- About the Publisher