Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is an international business newspaper printed on distinctive salmon pink broadsheet paper. It is regarded as a newspaper of high repute, and has moved in recent years to become the most upmarket newspaper in Britain.

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Broadsheet - Upmarket - Britain

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The FT was launched as the London Financial Guide on January 9, 1888, by Horatio Bottomley, renaming itself the Financial Times on February 13 of the same year. Describing itself as the friend of "The Honest Financier and the Respectable Broker", it was initially published as a four page journal from its headquarters in London. It adopted its trademark pink paper in 1893 to distinguish it from its rival the Financial News (founded 1884), a move that helped ensure its success. After years of competing with four other financially-oriented newspapers, in 1945 it finally absorbed the Financial News, the last of its rivals. This happened when Brendan Bracken, who owned both publications, combined them under the Financial Times title.

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January 9 - 1888 - Horatio Bottomley - February 13 - London - 1893 - Financial News - 1945 - Brendan Bracken

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The FT reports extensively on business and features extensive share and financial product listings. It also has a sizeable network of international reporters covering current affairs in general. The FT is usually in two sections, the first section covers national and international news, while the second section covers company and markets news.

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The Saturday edition of the FT has multiple sections providing broad coverage of 'Culture', the Arts, and 'Events'.

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Although headquartered in London, the paper currently has more readers overseas than in Britain. Total circulation is about 450,000. There are four regional editions for the UK, Europe, the US and Asia.

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The current editor of the FT is Andrew Gowers, who took over from Richard Lambert in the autumn of 2001.

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Andrew Gowers - Richard Lambert - Autumn - 2001

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Since 2000 the FT has published a German language edition, Financial Times Deutschland, with its own news coverage. Its circulation in 2003 was approximately 90,000.

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2000 - German language - Financial Times Deutschland

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The Financial Times is owned by Pearson PLC, an international publishing company.

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Despite its name, the paper has no connection with The Times.

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The FT Group includes The Financial Times, FT.com, a shareholding in The Economist, ownership of Les Echos (a Paris-based financial daily) and numerous joint ventures including Vedemosti in Russia.

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The Economist - Les Echos - Vedemosti

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One of the Financial Times newsprint suppliers are Holmen, which produces their distinctively coloured newspaper.

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Newsprint - Holmen - Newspaper

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