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John Gapper

Chief UK Business Columnist

John Gapper is chief UK business columnist of the Financial Times, writing twice weekly on UK companies, entrepreneurs and business policy. He was formerly weekend business columnist and opinion & analysis editor. He has worked for the FT since 1987 in London, New York and Tokyo, writing widely on business affairs and contributing many features and interviews.
Email John Gapper @johngapper  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Pimlico Plumbers Ltd
    Charlie Mullins is back on Pimlico Plumbers’ home turf

    Family of UK’s best-known plumber challenges private equity’s approach to home services

    2 hours ago
    Charlie Mullins
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
    Rolls-Royce is on a smoother flight path at last

    The UK aircraft engine manufacturer is starting to live up to its distinguished name

    Rolls Royce jet engine and logo
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    Entrepreneurship
    How to stay happy when you have lost a fortune

    John Foley, co-founder of Peloton, is remarkably unshaken by his Icarus-like fall from being a billionaire

    John Foley, co-founder and chief executive officer of Peloton
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
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    ‘I was collateral damage’ – an interview with Evgeny Lebedev

    For nearly two decades, the enigmatic Russian-born media baron charmed the British establishment. The pandemic, Ukraine war and change in government now find him in social Siberia

    Evgeny Lebedev in the office at his home, Stud House in Hampton Court Park. On the wall is a portrait of him by Jonathan Yeo
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    Gold
    The new gold rush reflects the world’s deep worries

    The price of gold reached a record high this week, driven by concerns over inflation and instability

    gold bullions
  • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    Mars will find Pop-Tarts and Pringles hard to digest

    The US confectionery company’s $36bn acquisition of Kellanova makes its health challenge greater

    A Pop-Tart broken in half with jam oozing out
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    Luxury goods
    The luxury industry is falling from its elevated heights

    Labels from Gucci to Burberry are struggling as aspirational shoppers pull back from extravagance

    Customers stand in line outside a Louis Vuitton store in the Ginza district of Tokyo
  • Friday, 12 July, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    From Erewhon to Bayley & Sage, luxury grocers are back in fashion

    Natural food and drink emporia are growing in the affluent parts of Los Angeles and London

    Bayley & Sage, gourmet and specialty food shop at Wimbledon High Street
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    Person in the News
    Jeff Bezos, relentless innovator turned troubled media baron

    Amazon’s founder has long thrived on disrupting industries but the Washington Post may be a challenge too far

    Illustration of Jeff Bezos in suit and tie holding a copy of the Washington Post
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Film
    Hollywood on Thames is a prize for the UK economy

    The rejection of a film studio scheme near Marlow bodes ill for the future of creative industries

    An artist’s impression shows the proposed entrance to Marlow Film Studios
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    UK universities
    Imperial leads the triumph of technology universities

    Global science institutions are becoming more powerful as Silicon Valley takes over business

    View looking up at Imperial West Tower in White City, London part of the Imperial College campus, against a blue sky with wispy clouds
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Divestment
    The Baillie Gifford boycott does more harm than good

    Campaigning against the asset manager has shallow logic and will make the literary world poorer

    Signs that include Baillie Gifford are removed in Hay-on-Wye, Wales
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Legal services
    London’s junior lawyers deserve their £150,000 pay

    US law firms in the City of London have raised the benchmark for newly qualified professionals

    Morning commuters on London Bridge in the City of London
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Drug prices
    Wegovy is becoming too essential for its elite price

    As the health benefits of anti-obesity medicines widen, pharma companies need to rethink what they charge

    Close up of Wegovy packaging
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    Retail & Consumer industry
    British pubs are recovering from years of closing time

    A revenue revival and the reopening of some locals show that an old institution is adapting

    A traditional English pub set within a Georgian residential building
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    Food & Beverage
    The strange new economy of all-you-can-eat buffets

    Red Lobster is in trouble but luxury feasts with unlimited steak and champagne are thriving

    Les Grands Buffets in Narbonne, France, charges diners €52.90 for piles of haute cuisine
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Diamonds and gemstones
    Diamonds won’t be forever unless miners make them sparkle

    The natural jewels have lost their old mystique because carbon crystals can be grown in labs

    A billboard for Tiffany & Co with a huge image of a diamond pendant
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    Non-dom tax status
    The non-dom is dead. Long live the foreign resident

    The UK needs a fair and attractive tax regime for wealthy newcomers to replace an imperial anachronism

    A view of the City of London skyline
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    Luxury goods
    Rolex has ended up in a Peruvian pile of bling

    A scandal involving president Dina Boluarte shows the drawback of mass luxury Swiss watchmaking

    Close up of the face of a Datejust diamond encrusted watch by Rolex
  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    Trump Media & Technology Group
    Donald Trump pioneers the leveraged financial donation

    The former US president gained billions on paper this week when his Truth Social media business went public

    Pedestrians walk past the Nasdaq building in New York
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Unilever PLC
    Fake Magnum ice cream is too upsetting for Unilever

    The consumer goods multinational is separating its ice cream business amid competition from all sides

    A box of fake Magnum ice cream
  • Saturday, 16 March, 2024
    Newspaper industry
    Fleet Street’s rotten borough has seized the Telegraph from Abu Dhabi

    Conservative politicians and journalists joined forces to block a £600mn acquisition of the news organisation by RedBird IMI

    A front page of The Telegraph. If governments were immune to proprietorial whims, the Conservative party would not be worried about the identity of the newspaper’s new owners
  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
    FT Books Essay
    High finance, low spirits — insider tales from Wall Street and the City

    Two sharp memoirs give a glimpse of the steep rewards — and downsides — of working at the summit of the financial sector

  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    Elon Musk
    Elon Musk is in the great tradition of feuding entrepreneurs

    Tesla’s co-founder reveals a common nature by picking a legal fight with Sam Altman of OpenAI

    A man in a suit sits with his hands clasped
  • Saturday, 2 March, 2024
    The Weekend Essay
    Hauser & Wirth: the Swiss gallery that went global

    The family-owned business has risen swiftly, mixing exclusivity with an expansive vision of the good life. John Gapper goes in search of its secrets

    People chat in a gallery in front of large painting of a woman’s head, her face made up of colourful abstract shapes
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