Provider - Financial Times Ltd

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Overview

London-based publisher of business news, opinion, data and analysis for the global business community, on print, mobile, and Web platforms, with "a combined paid print and digital circulation of 744,000." (2015). FT’s digital subscriptions account for 70% of its total circulation.

In 2015 the "FT family" comprised:

The FT newspaper and FT.com
FTChinese
Medley Global Advisors (MGA)
Financial Publishing
FT Labs
New York Institute of Finance
ExecSense

Website:

http://www.ft.com

Type of Organization:

Limited liability company

Provider Role(s):

Content producer

Platform provider

Posted:

May 13, 2015 3:53pm

Updated:

Oct 1, 2015 2:02pm

Details

Alternative Names:

Financial Times Group

Prior Names:

The Financial News

Parent Organization:

Pearson PLC

Year established:

1884

Still in Operation:

Yes

Main Address:

80 Strand

London

WC2R 0RL

United Kingdom

Contacts:

Robert F. Rahn

Business Development Manager

Subject Areas:

Social Sciences

Resource Types:

Dataset

Newspapers

Reports

Statistics

Big data

CRL Analysis & Profile

History:

1888 - First established, as The London Financial Guide.

1957 - Purchased by Pearson.

2015 - Purchased by the employee-owned Japanese media firm Nikkei.

Financial Information:

The Financial Times Group is a division of Pearson PLC, and includes the Financial Times newspaper, FT.com, a 50% shareholding in The Economist, and "a joint venture with Vedomosti in Russia." Other FT Group holdings in 2015 included Financial Publishing, FT Chinese, FT Labs, Medley Global Advisors (MGA), ExecSense and the New York Institute of Finance.

2014 the Group reported operating cash flow of £649 million, sales of £334 million, and £24 million of adjusted operating income.

In 2015 FT reported a rise in total circulation across print and digital rose more than 30% over the period 2010-2014, to 737,000, "with digital circulation growing to represent 70% of the total, from 24%, and mobile driving almost half of all traffic."

For an analysis of the Financial Times digital strategy and business model see Ken Doctor's March 2013 post on the NiemanLab blog.

Governance: Board / Owners / Parent organization:

Board of Directors is drawn from within the FT and from the fields of news and finance.

Resources

eDesiderata Resources by this Provider

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Analyse Africa

Analyse Africa, a service from the Financial Times, provides access to macroeconomic data from global and local data sources on Africa from 2000-Present.

It includes access to key indicators in the following categories: political stability, banking and financing, infrastructure, education, economic potential, environment, social dynamics, trade, labour, and foreign direct investment.

Provider: Financial Times Ltd
Updated: Aug 24, 2015 12:17pm

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Financial Times

FT.com is an English-language, online business news portal, produced by London-based Financial Times Ltd. FT coverage of financial markets and interests is global, with extensive coverage of Western Europe, North America, China and Japan, South and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. FT was one of the first newspaper publishers to successfully charge for access to its website.

Provider: Financial Times Ltd
Updated: Mar 23, 2021 4:42pm