Etiqueta: Virgen
Half of clothes sold by online fashion brands ‘made from virgin plastic’
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Approximately half of the clothes sold by large online fashion brands such as Boohoo and Asos are made entirely from virgin plastic materials such as polyester, despite a push to reduce the huge environmental impact o...
Virgin Money to help customers avoid ‘poverty premium’ on energy bills
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A scheme to help low-income households avoid paying too much for their energy bills is being launched by Virgin Money, which has said it wants to ensure none of its customers are paying a “poverty premium” within 10 y...
Will Virgin Galactic ever lift off?
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Richard Branson was running almost 15 years late. But as we rode into the Mojave desert on the morning of 12 diciembre 2018, he was feeling upbeat and untroubled by the past. He wore jeans, a leather jacket and the eas...
Virgin Galactic shares fall after $500m stock sale announcement
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Shares in Virgin Galactic have fallen back to earth with a bump after an announcement by the spaceflight firm of its plans to sell up to $500m (£360m) of stock – only a day after the company’s founder, Richard Branson...
Virgin insists on its ‘exit fee’ although we can’t get a service
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I am a low-paid home worker and carer for my seriously ill wife, who can no longer work. Our financial position has recently forced us to downsize, but our longstanding telecoms provider, Virgin Media, does not supply...
Virgin Media and O2 merger cleared by competition watchdog
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The UK’s competition watchdog has provisionally cleared the £31bn merger of Virgin Media and O2, paving the way for the creation of a “national champion” to challenge BT. Last May, Liberty Global, which owns the UK’s ...
Liftoff? US allows Virgin Galactic to take paying passengers into space
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Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has made another small leap in the billionaire space race after US authorities gave it permission to take paying customers to space. Its licence was enhanced on Friday by the US F...
Missing UK woman’s friends urge US Virgin Islands police to search boat
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Friends of a British woman who has been missing in the US Virgin Islands for more than two weeks have called for authorities there to “prioritise the investigation” into her disappearance. The US Virgin Islands Police...
Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic plans stock market listing
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The British airline Virgin Atlantic is considering raising funds on the London Stock Exchange in an attempt to shore up its balance sheet. The listing, which is expected to be announced in the autumn, is likely to see...
Virgin Galactic to launch space plane with Richard Branson on board
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July is a frantic month for the two billionaires racing to kick off space tourism, with Richard Branson’s SpaceShipTwo set to launch on Sunday with the British entrepreneur on board just days ahead of rival and Amazon...
Virgin Wines registra un aumento en las ventas y elimina la crisis de la cadena de suministro
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Virgin Wines anunció un aumento en las ventas y dijo que confiaba en que evitaría el caos de la cadena de suministro que afecta a otros minoristas porque se había abastecido para esta Navidad el año pasado.. Acciones en las bebidas online ...
Virgin Galactic flight to the edge of space: your questions answered
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British business mogul Richard Branson is going to the edge of space with three other people. If the flight goes as planned, Branson will be the first billionaire to reach space on his own commercial vehicle, pipping ...
Virgin Media’s recycling promise gets zero marks
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Last year I upgraded my Virgin Media TV package, y, as result, ended up with two set-top boxes I needed to dispose of. Uno, sent in error, was new and unused. Despite my repeated attempts, Virgin refuses to take the...
Virgin Galactic to sell space flight tickets starting at $450,000 a seat
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Virgin Galactic has said it will open ticket sales on Thursday for space flights starting at $450,000 a seat, weeks after the company’s billionaire founder, Richard Branson, took a high profile flight to to the edge o...
Jane the Virgin: never has a TV show been so wonderfully bonkers and yet so genuinely moving
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It’s impossible not to fall for Jane the Virgin, a romantic comedy series with the convoluted plot and larger-than-life characters of a soap opera. O, to be more precise, a Latin American telenovela. De hecho, the sho...
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space flight investigated by US regulators
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British entrepreneur Richard Branson’s flight on his own spaceship is under investigation from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) owing to a disturbance on his brief 11 July journey to space. En ...