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Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group of more than 400 companies,
is an English business magnate and investor. According to the Forbes 2012
list of billionaires, he is now the 4th richest citizen of the United Kingdom.
Starting in 1966, aged 16, following failed attempts to sell Christmas trees
and budgerigars, his first success was a magazine called Student, the first
issue of which appeared in January 1968. Two years later he started selling records by mail order, and in 1971 he opened his first record shop. Two years later came the launch of Virgin Records, and Richard was on his way.
His companies now operate in more than 30 countries.
They include airlines, railways, radio stations, books, games, health, cosmetics, mobile phones and a space tourism company—everything from wines to balloon flights. He was knighted in 1999 for his contribution to entrepreneurship.
In 2013 he announced he was moving permanently to Necker, his private island in the Caribbean.
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