Financial Times

Extracted Attributes

• Headquarters

  Bracken House, 1 Friday Street, London, EC4M 9BT, United Kingdom

• Founding Date

  1888-01-09

• Employee Count

  1,001-5,000 employees

• Previous Owner

  Pearson (1957–2015)

• Editorial Stance

  Economic liberalism, free trade, and free markets

• Acquisition Price

  #844 million (US$1.32 billion)

• Total Subscribers

  1.3 million (as of 2023)

• Digital Subscribers

  1.2 million (as of 2023)

• Distinctive Feature

  Light-orange (salmon) newsprint

• Parent Organization

  Nikkei Inc. (since 2015)

Timeline

• The publication is founded as the London Financial Guide by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley. (Source: Wikidata)

  1888-01-09

• The newspaper is rebranded as the Financial Times. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1888-02-09

• The Financial Times merges with its rival, Financial News, under the leadership of Brendan Bracken. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1945-01-01

• Pearson acquires the Financial Times. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1957-01-01

• The FT launches 'In the Pink', a business-related simulation game with a #10,000 prize. (Source: Web Search)

  2006-05-01

• The FT Group sells its 13.85% stake in Business Standard Ltd of India. (Source: Web Search)

  2008-04-01

• Nikkei Inc. agrees to acquire the Financial Times from Pearson for #844 million. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2015-07-23

• The FT reaches the milestone of one million paying subscribers, 75% of which are digital. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2019-12-31

• The FT reports a total of 1.3 million subscribers, with 1.2 million being digital subscriptions. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2023-12-31

Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nikkei, with core editorial offices across Britain, the United States and continental Europe. In July 2015, Pearson sold the publication to Nikkei for £844 million (US$1.32 billion) after owning it since 1957. In 2019, it reported one million paying subscriptions, three-quarters of which were digital subscriptions. In 2023, it was reported to have 1.3 million subscribers of which 1.2 million were digital. The newspaper has a prominent focus on financial journalism and economic analysis rather than generalist reporting, drawing both criticism and acclaim. It sponsors an annual book award and publishes a "Person of the Year" feature. The paper was founded in January 1888 as the London Financial Guide before rebranding a month later as the Financial Times. It was first circulated around metropolitan London by James Sheridan, who, along with his brother and Horatio Bottomley, sought to report on city business opposite the Financial News. The succeeding half-century of competition between the two papers eventually culminated in a 1945 merger, led by Brendan Bracken, which established it as one of the largest business newspapers in the world. Globalisation from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries facilitated editorial expansion for the FT, with the paper adding opinion columns, special reports, political cartoons, readers' letters, book reviews, technology articles and global politics features. The paper is often characterised by its light-orange (salmon) newsprint. It is supplemented by its lifestyle magazine (FT Magazine), weekend edition (FT Weekend) and some industry publications. The editorial stance of the Financial Times centres on economic liberalism, particularly advocacy of free trade and free markets. Since its founding, it has supported liberal democracy, favouring classically liberal politics and policies from international governments; its newsroom is independent from its editorial board, and it is considered a newspaper of record. Due to its history of economic commentary, the FT publishes a variety of financial indices, primarily the FTSE All-Share Index. Since the late 20th century, its typical depth of coverage has linked the paper with a white-collar, educated, and financially literate readership. Because of this tendency, the FT has traditionally been regarded as a centrist to centre-right liberal, neo-liberal, and conservative-liberal newspaper. The Financial Times is headquartered in Bracken House at 1 Friday Street, near the city's financial centre, where it maintains its publishing house, corporate centre, and main editorial office.

Web Search Results

• Financial Times

  The Financial Times Group announced the beta launch of newssift, part of FT Search, in March 2009. Newssift.com is a next-generation search tool for business professionals that indexes millions of articles from thousands of global business news sources, not just the FT. The Financial Times Group acquired Money Media (an online news and commentary site for the industry) and Exec-Appointments (an online recruitment specialist site for the executive jobs market). The FT Group once had a 13.85% stake in Business Standard Ltd of India, the publisher of the Business Standard. It sold this stake in April 2008 and has entered into an agreement with Network 18 to launch the Financial Times in India, though it is speculated that they may find it difficult to do so, as the brand 'Financial Times' in [...] The Financial Times' Financial Publishing division (formerly FT Business) provides print and online content for retail, personal and institutional finance audiences. Examples of publications and services include: Investors Chronicle, a personal finance magazine and website; "FT Money", a weekly personal finance supplement in "FT Weekend"; FT Wealth, a magazine for the global high-net-worth community and FTfm, a weekly review of the global fund management industry, Money Management and FT Adviser. The institutional segment includes: The Banker, This Is Africa, fDi Intelligence and Professional Wealth Management (PWM). Money-Media, a separate arm of Financial Publishing, delivers a range of digital information services for fund management professionals around the globe, including: Ignites, [...] The Financial Times also ran a business-related game called "In the Pink" (a phrase meaning "in good health", also a reference to the colour of the newspaper and to the phrase "in the red" meaning to be making a loss). Each player was put in the virtual role of Chief Executive and the goal was to have the highest profit "Profit (accounting)") when the game closes. The winner of the game (the player who makes the highest profit) was to receive a real monetary prize of £10,000. The game ran from 1 May to 28 June 2006.

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• Country

  United Kingdom

• Instance Of

  Q1110794

• Headquarters

  Bracken House

• Inception Date

  1/9/1888