FT Group

We provide niche business information and services to a very rapidly growing global audience.

Our aim is to be the gold standard in must-have business information which we'll provide to our customers where they want it, when they want it, how they want it. At the heart of the Financial Times is outstanding editorial content and insight. And we have just been awarded the Newspaper of the Year Award and been tagged as "a truly 21st Century newspaper."

We have a fantastic newspaper and align with that other services including FT.com, our website which is so innovative in many fields.

The FT Group also includes a stable of financial business magazines. These are specialist publications that target specific niches and specific sectors of the markets. A new and growing part of the FT Group is our subscription based businesses. These businesses include Mergermarket. The information they provide is gold dust to the investment banks and their advisors as they try to identify opportunities to help their client make money in a changing world.

Interactive Data provides pricing on hard to price securities, analytics on fixed income and a whole range of information on other securities. This information is mission critical to financial institutions.

The Financial Times Group is also home to FTSE, our joint venture with the London Stock Exchange. We own a 50% interest in The Economist, and we have seen continued growth in this business. We are lucky to have some of the most sought after customers in the world. And we keep them because we provide them with must-have information in innovative ways, and with innovative products online, in print, across the world.

RONA FAIRHEAD