Virgin Megastores
Virgin Megastores Type Private Industry Retail Founded Oxford Street Founder (Sir) Richard Branson Headquarters London , England Number of locations Various Area served Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Oman Products Books Consoles DVDs Games Magazines Music T-Shirts Tickets Parent Virgin Group Website Virgin Megastores International portal Virgin Megastores is an international entertainment retailing chain, founded in early 1976 by (Sir) Richard Branson as a record shop on London's Oxford Street. In 1979 the company opened their first Megastore at the end of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court Road. [1] The company expanded to hundreds of stores worldwide in the 1990s, but has lost a large number of stores in recent years, largely with the sale and eventual closing of the UK, US, Irish, Canadian, Australian, Italian, Spanish, French, Greek and Japanese stores. By 2015, cur...