The FT is firmly established as one of the world's leading business information brands, internationally recognised for its authoritative, accurate, and incisive news, comment and analysis.  Whether in print or online, the Financial Times is essential reading for the global business, financial and political community.

Printed in 23 print sites across the world, the Financial Times newspaper currently has a global circulation of 449,385 copies and a readership of

1.3 million people.  FT.com is one of the world's leading business information websites and the internet partner of the Financial Times, with

5.35 million unique monthly users, 43 million page views per month and over 100,000 subscribers.

Both the FT newspaper and FT.com deliver a premium audience to advertisers.  This audience is made up of the world's most affluent and influential people.  At work they're high- earning senior executives who control budgets and choose how to spend them; at home, they're high-spending consumers who enjoy spending their wealth on the finer things in life and come to the FT for inspiration.

Globally, FT newspaper readers earn over £162 billion a year and are worth almost £600 billion between them, while FT.com users have a net worth of around £1.3 trillion - more than the GDP of Switzerland, Canada and Australia combined.