Fast Facts

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• The Financial Times was founded in 1888.
• In 1893, the Financial Times first began printing on salmon pink paper as a stroke of marketing genius to distinguish the FT from its major competitor, the Financial News.
• On January 4, 1993, the FT was printed on white paper to celebrate 100 years "in the pink."
• The Financial Times is one of the few publications to have a larger circulation outside its home market than within its home market.
• Financial Times Editors are regularly featured on CNN and CNBC programs such as "Business Day" and "Today's Business."
• The Financial Times is the only newspaper read on the beach in Steven Spielberg's "The Lost World: Jurassic Park."
• James Bond 007 pretended to be an FT reporter in "A View To A Kill."
• The FT was the newspaper of choice of the villain Max in the Tom Cruise hit film, "Mission: Impossible."