After it's recent take-over of NTL and Telewest, it looks as though Virgin is taking over the world as we know it!
Who can blame the great Sir Richard Branson? He has worked so hard for his success and is a positive role model, in my opinion anyway.
He has such a good PR team to help him with this and it would be absolutely brilliant if one day I could be working along side him.
The Virgin train which derailed at Grayrigg, near Kendal on 23rd of February 2007 could have been a hefty blow for the company. However, they have still come out of it on top. The fact that one elderly woman died and several others were quite seriously injured, was over looked as the media focused their attention on the heroic train driver who stayed with the train, trying to control it and the safety of the trains themselves. It seems the media have (finally) been influenced by a company.
I think that it is really clever how they managed to detract bad publicity by taking journalists to the factory where the trains are made and also to get the designer of the trains to go through their safety features such as rounded edges on everything inside the train and the very fine sheet of metal which is so fine, it's transparent, which in effect stops the glass shattering.
I think that this was a very wise move and without a doubt, people have carried on using the trains.
As for taking over the world, he has proved that anything is possible. With Virgin megastores, travel and tourism, drinks, finance, media and telecommunications, just to mention a few, I think we should just watch this space!
Monday, March 05, 2007
Petrol Problems!
Just got out of quite an interesting tutorial. We had quite a discussion on the petrol problem which was in the news mostly last week.
I think that the media could have made it a lot worse but it seems to have fizzled out in the media eye, for now anyway.
Tesco, Morrisons and ASDA are potentially going to have plenty of cases against them in the very near future and I hope there PR team are ready as their images could disintigrate quickly in the petrol station department.
The statement that was issued by the major supermarkets last week that everything was fine with the petrol and that checks had been done was, in a way, retracted when extra checks were done to find a high level of silicone in certain batches.
The supplier of unleaded petrol to both Morrisons and Tesco is Greenergy, who shares the tanks (in which the petrol is kept) with Harvest Energy and blames them for the silicone component which has effectively corrupted the petrol.
Eventhough this happened mostly in Southern England, I personally, put off filling up my car as other petrol stations put their prices up ridiculously, knowing that motorists would avoid the big supermarkets and go there instead.
This must have affected the big supermarkets financially. For example, at my local Tesco on Saturday, whilst travelling to work, I noticed there was only about 3 cars in the station whereas usually they are queuing to get in!
However, this morning I decided I had to as I wouldn't have any chance in getting to Uni! I have to admit I did go to Tesco as it was convenient. I am just praying now that my car is going to be ok!
I think that the media could have made it a lot worse but it seems to have fizzled out in the media eye, for now anyway.
Tesco, Morrisons and ASDA are potentially going to have plenty of cases against them in the very near future and I hope there PR team are ready as their images could disintigrate quickly in the petrol station department.
The statement that was issued by the major supermarkets last week that everything was fine with the petrol and that checks had been done was, in a way, retracted when extra checks were done to find a high level of silicone in certain batches.
The supplier of unleaded petrol to both Morrisons and Tesco is Greenergy, who shares the tanks (in which the petrol is kept) with Harvest Energy and blames them for the silicone component which has effectively corrupted the petrol.
Eventhough this happened mostly in Southern England, I personally, put off filling up my car as other petrol stations put their prices up ridiculously, knowing that motorists would avoid the big supermarkets and go there instead.
This must have affected the big supermarkets financially. For example, at my local Tesco on Saturday, whilst travelling to work, I noticed there was only about 3 cars in the station whereas usually they are queuing to get in!
However, this morning I decided I had to as I wouldn't have any chance in getting to Uni! I have to admit I did go to Tesco as it was convenient. I am just praying now that my car is going to be ok!
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Viajando en España
I've got to go to Spain next Febuary for my course. I'm feeling quite nevous about choosing where I am actually going to go as I do have to study the equivilent to PR, so obviously want the best university to get the highest marks I can.
The choice is Murcia or Madrid.
I would absolutely love to go to Madrid, even though it is quite expensive but could quite easily see myself slipping into quite a cosmopolitan lifestyle!
However, Murcia looks to be the better university (the cheaper flights, from Leeds/Bradford airport and of course, the beach not too far away, both help!). I'm quite excited about the whole scenario but will miss everyone so much. I think the tan that I will get (whilst not studying - obviously) will counter balance that in no time!
Aswell as doing spanish at uni, I have just started having private lessons where I want to concentrate on my speaking as I don't feel too strong in it. Decided, I need to get some practice if i'm going to live there!
Would love to hear from anyone who has been in or is currently in this situation as I think that knowing someone has come out of it alive (literally) would reassure me no end!
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