金融時報

Pearson relinquishes coveted FT brand after 58 years and flurry of speculation

The Financial Times has covered countless takeovers since its creation in 1888, and detailed waves of consolidation, asset-swapping and covetous moguls in its own industry.

Yet, despite perennial speculation, it has not changed hands since 1957, when S. Pearson Industries, a British construction company that had accrued interests from provincial newspapers to the Lazard merchant banking house, bought a controlling stake as “a sound, conservative investment”.

The FT, then a salmon-tinted London paper under the banner of “industry, commerce, public affairs”, gave that news just two paragraphs, stating authoritatively that its “management and policy will continue exactly as at present”.

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