01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED(THE)
- Company number
- 00227590
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
8 June 2026Next statement due
22 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 7.6%
- Mean bonus gap
- 15.2%
- Women receiving bonus
- 90.7%
- Men receiving bonus
- 90.4%
- Women in top quartile
- 48.5%
- Women in lower quartile
- 63.4%
Earlier reporting years (8)
- 1000 to 499911.3% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 49999.6% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499913.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499913.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499915.9% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499918.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499918.4% median hourly gap
- 1000 to 499919.4% median hourly gap
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 28 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 0 days
- Longest standard term
- 90 days
- E-invoicing offered
- Yes
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The FT’s most common supplier payment terms are:
• Net 30 – All vendors
• Immediate – Vendors
The maximum payment period that the FT has agreed to in January to June 2026 is 90 days.
Payment terms depends largely on agreements with respective suppliers. Should the agreement be silent, the FT’s default payment term of 30 applies.
There have been no changes to standard payment terms in the reporting period. - Dispute resolution process
The FT business contact is responsible for confirming that the good / service delivered is of the required quality before payment is actioned.
Invoice disputes are addressed with the suppliers directly by the FT business contact. Invoices under dispute can be processed within Oracle ebusiness suite and placed on hold. Approval and payment may take some time as dependent on the resolution of the dispute.
Suppliers can contact the FT’s Global Accounts Payable team via its group mailbox accounts.payable@ft.com. An Accounts Payable Analyst would be available to answer supplier queries 22 x 5.
The FT’s Global Accounts Payable team ensures that authorizers are regularly chased to approve invoices in their approval queues and any long outstanding invoices not approved within reasonable timeframes will be queried, thereby, identifying any disputed invoice.
The FT recommends suppliers to send their invoices directly to email address accounts.payable@ft.com to be lodged within our Oracle system and to commence tracking through to settlement
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 21.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay0.0% outside terms
- 5.0 average days to pay49.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay49.0% outside terms
- 19.0 average days to pay54.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay46.0% outside terms
- 24.0 average days to pay55.0% outside terms
- 21.0 average days to pay41.0% outside terms
- 23.0 average days to pay35.0% outside terms
- 20.0 average days to pay38.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED(THE)
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 4 June 2026
- Sectors
- Media, publishing, arts and entertainment
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
06 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
Financial Times Subscriptions
Cabinet Office · ocds-b5fd17-928a9e05-89ae-484d-9c84-663e2909fb34
- Award value
- £22,049
- Contract period
- 2 July 2025 – 1 July 2026
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Financial Times Subscription
Department for Culture, Media and Sport · ocds-b5fd17-14a2f415-9d38-4661-ab9c-49b234618dca
- Award value
- £18,274
- Contract period
- 26 March 2025 – 25 March 2026
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Subscription to the Financial Times for 55 Readers
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-b36249af-d5e4-4c79-9aa7-0c6854111787
- Award value
- £16,205
- Contract period
- 21 December 2024 – 21 December 2025
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
Subscription to Financial Times 2024-25
UK GOVERNMENT INVESTMENTS LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-87d9c457-1fd6-4693-adba-9b053c34df02
- Award value
- £46,153
- Contract period
- 23 September 2024 – 22 September 2025
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
FT Future of Retail Summit - bespoke roundtable DBT
Department for International Trade · ocds-b5fd17-07296e12-5102-4171-bc3e-5866f9ac5b90
- Award value
- £30,000
- Contract period
- 29 August 2024 – 1 October 2024
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Foreign Direct Investment Tool
Department for International Trade · ocds-b5fd17-c35e07f1-46b8-4e42-be05-0b55d6f2e64b
- Award value
- £550,000
- Contract period
- 23 July 2024 – 22 July 2026
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
Financial Times Subscriptions
Cabinet Office · ocds-b5fd17-5bd14175-280e-41f3-9370-887436497a34
- Award value
- £15,658.80
- Contract period
- 2 July 2024 – 1 July 2025
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Financial Times Subscription FY 24/25
Department for Culture, Media and Sport · ocds-b5fd17-7fea8ad6-0f84-4900-9870-298a3ea60e4c
- Award value
- £17,672
- Contract period
- 26 March 2024 – 25 March 2025
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Financial Times Subscription 2024 - 2025
DEPARTMENT FOR LEVELLING UP, HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES · ocds-b5fd17-3a6813e7-89a0-4727-ba1b-9f21d31475b2
- Award value
- £25,389
- Contract period
- 22 February 2024 – 21 February 2025
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
GSS24029 - FT Subscription
UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-d5a02514-aa7a-48bc-b0f2-8495164c9d36
- Award value
- £15,295
- Contract period
- 22 December 2023 – 21 December 2024
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
Financial Times Subscription
Government Actuary Department · ocds-b5fd17-17de0369-b40a-47d9-ba87-d664606844d4
- Award value
- £98,374
- Contract period
- 11 November 2023 – 10 November 2026
- Procedure
- Other - Single Source
Subscription to Financial Times 2023-24
UK GOVERNMENT INVESTMENTS LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-516ab8e6-ad59-4bed-b25b-f93261f83da2
- Award value
- £43,563
- Contract period
- 23 September 2023 – 22 September 2024
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Provision of on-line research tools to attract and retain Foreign Direct Investment
Department for International Trade · ocds-b5fd17-de71eb88-d97e-4ef1-b80a-04041e5a9f9b
- Award value
- £70,000
- Contract period
- 1 June 2023 – 1 December 2023
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Awarded Contract
Cabinet Office · ocds-b5fd17-1980cdf2-1cbe-401b-b1c9-050a314af106
- Award value
- £54,598
- Contract period
- 14 March 2023 – 13 March 2024
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Financial Times Subscription Renewal 2022-25
BANK OF ENGLAND · ocds-b5fd17-3cb4e2da-6380-4e96-8483-d8d71ac6e94b
- Award value
- £899,480
- Contract period
- 1 November 2022 – 31 October 2025
- Procedure
- Other - Direct Award - Sole Supplier
Subscription to Financial Times
UK Government Investments · ocds-b5fd17-4b091dda-5eb5-43f1-abda-3f4f6c513ab6
- Award value
- £37,259
- Contract period
- 23 September 2022 – 22 September 2023
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Business and Finance News Service
H M Revenue & Customs · ocds-b5fd17-2124fddc-11f7-48d7-90b7-99de8700cb8c
- Award value
- £560,354
- Contract period
- 1 May 2022 – 30 April 2025
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
fDI Intelligence Database Subscription
LONDON & PARTNERS LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-53f5204e-892a-4766-986c-d61bcbc31898
- Award value
- £55,970
- Contract period
- 30 April 2022 – 30 April 2025
- Procedure
- Other - DA
The Financial Times Subscription
DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT · ocds-b5fd17-371b9e5d-4b49-4859-8b8a-55f44ef5a40e
- Award value
- £35,666
- Contract period
- 26 March 2022 – 25 March 2023
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Financial Times Online
COMPETITION AND MARKETS AUTHORITY · ocds-b5fd17-2787efa3-c9ab-4077-9145-6c0319649c60
- Award value
- £94,770
- Contract period
- 1 December 2021 – 30 November 2023
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Group subscription to the Financial Times
UK Government Investments · ocds-b5fd17-20dce9de-bff1-45e2-a2b1-c58b2221402c
- Award value
- £34,614
- Contract period
- 23 September 2021 – 22 September 2022
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Event Media Partner
GENOMICS ENGLAND LIMITED · ocds-b5fd17-2f9d29ac-2633-42cc-a739-44f5ad79ac4a
- Award value
- £50,000
- Contract period
- 11 October 2021 – 11 October 2021
- Procedure
- Competitive quotation (below threshold)
Financial Times On-line Subscription
Business Energy and Industrial Strategy · ocds-b5fd17-5c6142df-7b25-43b3-927f-42fb7dc730df
- Award value
- £23,000
- Contract period
- 31 March 2021 – 31 March 2022
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
The Financial Times Subscription
Department For Culture Media & Sport · ocds-b5fd17-65a15110-0f36-4da0-af7d-61d97fba4435
- Award value
- £31,490
- Contract period
- 26 March 2021 – 25 March 2022
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Renewal of Financial Times subscription for UKGI
UK Government Investments : HM Treasury · ocds-b5fd17-ec2a14ed-4912-4f90-a2cf-6b54d845677c
- Award value
- £23,618
- Contract period
- 23 September 2020 – 22 September 2021
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Agreement for Financial Advisor Marketing
National Savings & Investments · ocds-b5fd17-15a2f1f1-d1c1-4a48-8928-7cd7386d607b
- Award value
- £76,000
- Contract period
- 4 June 2020 – 3 June 2021
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Financial Times Subscription 2020/2021
DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT · ocds-b5fd17-20e3721b-930f-4d73-a806-5d541c226a9e
- Award value
- £11,494
- Contract period
- 1 April 2020 – 31 March 2021
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
PROVISION OF A CORPORATE SUBSCRIPTION TO THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Crown Commercial Service · ocds-b5fd17-a710fe6c-a2aa-4446-95c8-826f364d8f1e
- Award value
- £15,269
- Contract period
- 13 March 2019 – 12 March 2021
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
FT Online Subscription
FOREIGN & COMMONWEALTH OFFICE · ocds-b5fd17-9ddb262e-e0e9-4be7-8299-813b54b0a946
- Award value
- £242,140
- Contract period
- 1 January 2019 – 31 December 2020
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
Access to Financial Times - Digital Content
H M Revenue & Customs · ocds-b5fd17-78c4f802-ab5c-43a1-bebc-59570cbf50fd
- Award value
- £158,000
- Contract period
- 1 May 2018 – 30 April 2019
- Procedure
- Single tender action (below threshold)
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
07 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Financial Times Group Limited
- Owns 75% or more of shares
- Controls 75% or more of voting rights
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
08 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
09 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
10 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
11 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
UKGI Financial Times 2026-27
UK GOVERNMENT INVESTMENTS LIMITED · updated 19 August 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Financial Times subscription
UK Export Finance · updated 24 July 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Enterprise License Subscription to the Financial Times
Department for Business & Trade · updated 26 June 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Publication Resources
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY · updated 4 June 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Financial news provider
Financial Conduct Authority · updated 29 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Financial Times Subscription
The Pensions Regulator · updated 27 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Financial Times Subscription
Cabinet Office · updated 21 May 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
MHCLG Financial Times Subscription
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government · updated 4 March 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Inward Investment Site Selectors Roundtable Event
WEST MIDLANDS GROWTH COMPANY LIMITED · updated 20 February 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
MHCLG Financial Times Subscription
Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government · updated 20 February 2026
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
USW award of Financial Times Subscription
University of South Wales · updated 11 November 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Financial Times
BANK OF ENGLAND · updated 27 October 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
UKGI Financial Times 2025-26
UK GOVERNMENT INVESTMENTS LIMITED · updated 1 September 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Financial Times Subscription
UK Export Finance · updated 5 August 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Comms - DESNZ/DSIT - Supply of Joint Financial Times Licence
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero · updated 4 August 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Subscription to Financial Times 205/2026
BORDER TO COAST PENSIONS PARTNERSHIP LIMITED · updated 3 July 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
Financial Times Subscription
The Pensions Regulator · updated 3 June 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 2
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
12 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
13 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
Publishing of newspapers
14 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
17 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
15 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
16 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.