Virgin Enlists Interactives

Web Projects Pick Up Speed In Branson’s U.S. Plan
LOS ANGELES–Virgin Group, the growing fleet of companies founded by flamboyant British entrepreneur Richard Branson, is making a major interactive push in the U.S.
Several Virgin companies are targeting or hiring interactive shops around the country for projects ranging from building Web sites to creating e-commerce programs.
The London office of Virgin Entertainment Group has been talking to U.S. shops about building a site to sell music over the Internet for its Virgin Megastores chain, confirmed Christos Garkinos, the Los Angeles-based company’s vice president of marketing.