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The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is an English-language international daily newspaper with a special emphasis on business and economic news. The paper, published by Pearson in London, was founded in 1888 by James Sheridan and Horatio Bottomley, and merged with its closest rival, the ''Financial News'' (which had been founded in 1884) in 1945.'' The ''Financial Times'' has an average daily readership of 2.2 million people worldwide (PwC audited figures, November 2011). FT.com has 4.5 million registered users and over 285,000 digital subscribers, as well as 600,000 paying users. FT Chinese has more than 1.7 million registered users.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About Us )〕 The world editions of the ''Financial Times'' newspaper had a combined average daily circulation of 234,193 copies (88,000 for the UK edition), for January 2014. In February 2014 the world editions, combined, of the ''Financial Times'' sold 224,000 copies. In October 2013, the combined paid print and digital circulation of the ''Financial Times'' reached nearly 629,000 copies (282,000 for print and 387,000 for online sales), the highest circulation in its 125-year history. , print sales for the paper (all editions combined) stand at 210,182.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.abc.org.uk/Products-Services/Product-Page/?tid=143 )〕 On 23 July 2015, Nikkei agreed to buy the Financial Times from Pearson plc for £844M ($1.32 billion).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Financial Times sold to Nikkei by Pearson for £844m )〕 On 30 November 2015, Nikkei completes acquisition of Financial Times from Pearson plc 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nikkei completes acquisition of Financial Times )〕 ==History== The ''FT'' was launched as the ''London Financial Guide'' on 10 January 1888, renaming itself the ''Financial Times'' on 13 February the same year. Describing itself as the friend of "The Honest Financier and the Respectable Broker", it was a four-page journal. The readership was the financial community of the City of London, its only rival being the slightly older and more daring ''Financial News''. On 2 January 1893, the ''FT'' turned light salmon pink to distinguish it from the similarly named ''Financial News'': it was also cheaper to print on unbleached paper (several other more general newspapers such as the Pink 'Un had the same policy), but nowadays it is more expensive as the paper has to be dyed specially. After 57 years of rivalry the ''Financial Times'' and the ''Financial News'' were merged by Brendan Bracken in 1945 to form a single six-page newspaper. The ''Financial Times'' brought a higher circulation while the ''Financial News'' provided much of the editorial talent. The ''Lex'' column was also introduced from ''Financial News''. Pearson bought the paper in 1957. Over the years the paper grew in size, readership and breadth of coverage. It established correspondents in cities around the world, reflecting early moves in the world economy towards globalisation. As cross-border trade and capital flows increased during the 1970s, the ''FT'' began international expansion, facilitated by developments in technology and the growing acceptance of English as the language of business. On 1 January 1979 the first ''FT'' (Continental Europe edition) was printed outside the UK, in Frankfurt. Since then, with increased international coverage, the ''FT'' has become a global newspaper, printed in 22 locations with five international editions to serve the UK, continental Europe, the U.S., Asia and the Middle East. The European edition is distributed in continental Europe and Africa. It is printed Monday to Saturday at five centres across Europe. Thanks to correspondents reporting from all the centres of Europe, the ''FT'' is regarded as a leading news source involving the European Union, the Euro, and European corporate affairs. In 1994 ''FT'' launched a luxury lifestyle magazine, ''How To Spend It''. In 2009 it launched a standalone website for the magazine. On 13 May 1995 the ''Financial Times'' group made its first foray into the online world with the launch of FT.com. This provided a summary of news from around the globe and was supplemented in February 1996 with the launch of stock prices, followed in spring 1996 by the second-generation site. The site was funded by advertising and contributed to the online advertising market in the UK in the late 1990s. Between 1997 and 2000 the site underwent several revamps and changes of strategy, as the FT Group and Pearson reacted to changes online. ''FT'' introduced subscription services in 2002. FT.com is one of the few UK news sites successfully operating on subscriptions. In 1997 the ''FT'' launched a U.S. edition, printed in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Atlanta, Orlando and Washington, D.C., although the newspaper was first printed outside New York City in 1985. In September 1998 the ''FT'' became the first UK-based newspaper to sell more copies internationally than within the UK. In 2000 the ''Financial Times'' started publishing a German-language edition, ''Financial Times Deutschland'', with a news and editorial team based in Hamburg. Its initial circulation in 2003 was 90,000. It was originally a joint venture with a German publishing firm, Gruner + Jahr. In January 2008 the ''FT'' sold its 50% stake to its German partner. (''FT Deutschland'' never made a profit and is said to have accumulated losses of €250 million over 12 years. It closed on 7 December 2012.) ''The Financial Times'' launched a new weekly supplement for the fund management industry on 4 February 2002. ''FT fund management'' (FTfm) was and still is distributed with the paper every Monday. FTfm is the world's largest-circulation fund management title. Since 2005 the ''FT'' has sponsored the annual ''Financial Times'' and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. On 23 April 2007 the ''FT'' unveiled a "refreshed" version of the newspaper and introduced a new slogan, "We Live in Financial Times." In 2007 the ''FT'' pioneered a metered paywall, which lets visitors to its site read a limited number of free articles during any one month before asking them to pay. Four years later the ''FT'' launched its HTML5 mobile web app. Smartphones and tablets now drive 12% of subscriptions and 19% of traffic to FT.com. In 2012 the number of digital subscribers passed the circulation of the newspaper for the first time and the ''FT'' drew almost half of its revenue from subscriptions, rather than advertising. Since 2010 the ''FT'' has been available on Bloomberg Terminal. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Financial Times」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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