Tag: Financial Times

• Tuesday, October 10th 2017 - 16:37 UTC

  China's Sinopec considering selling assets in Santa Cruz, Argentina

  

  Argentina’s losses on its oil and gas assets, as well as its labor disputes, have prompted China’s Sinopec to consider selling its operations in the country. Sinopec advisors have offered up some of its assets to about a dozen large firms from the U.S., Latin America, Europe, Africa, and Russia, it was reported on Monday and confirmed in Beijing media.

• Thursday, August 13th 2015 - 07:40 UTC

  The Economist group strengthens independence through share buy-back

  

  The Economist Group announced on 12 August 2015 that it will buy back 5.04m ordinary shares (20% of total share capital) from Pearson plc for £182m. Pearson’s remaining shares in the Group will be acquired by Exor for £287m, including all of its 1.26m B shares and 6.3m ordinary shares (30% of total share capital).<br />
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• Monday, July 27th 2015 - 11:58 UTC

  Pearson prepared to sell 50% stake in The Economist; deal should be over b by end of summer

  

  Publishing company Pearson has confirmed plans to sell its 50% stake in the Economist Group. The statement from the firm came just days after it announced the sale of the Financial Times to Japan's Nikkei.

• Friday, July 24th 2015 - 10:15 UTC

  Japan's largest media company buys the Financial Times in a £844m deal

  

  Nikkei, Japan’s largest media company, is to buy the FT Group from Pearson for £844m, after stunning its rival bidder Germany’s Axel Springer with an eleventh hour offer for the London-based global news organisation. The deal marks the end of an era, bringing the curtain down on Pearson's 58 year ownership of the Financial Times at a time of upheaval in the global media industry.