Virgin Megastores

Virgin Megastores

Company type	Private
Industry	Retail
Founded	1976; 48 years ago (1976) on Oxford Street in London, England
Founder	(Sir) Richard Branson
Headquarters	London , England
Number of locations	Various
Areas served	North Africa, Western Asia
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 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 European, North American, Australian, Japanese and Chinese stores. By 2015, it operated only in the Middle East and in North Africa.^[2]