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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.
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  • 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
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Supply chains
    The old empires of cocoa, coffee and tea are fragile

    Climate change and attacks on ships in the Red Sea are disrupting supplies of drinks from the global south

    Close up of boxes of Yorkshire Tea on a supermarket shelf
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Retail sector
    Convenience stores should make more of themselves

    Japan is a pioneer of combining retail outlets with pharmacies and support services for ageing shoppers

    A Lawson convenience store in Tokyo
  • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
    WeWork
    WeWork’s distress is an opportunity for Adam Neumann

    The financial crisis for office buildings has lured back the prophet of flexible working

    Ben Hickey illustration of a person pulling a logo of WeWork on a string
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Corporate governance
    Tesla’s board took a holiday from managing Elon Musk

    Company’s directors behaved slackly in giving CEO a $55.8bn pay package and Delaware’s chancery court has rightly intervened

    Elon Musk smiling and gesturing with both hands palm up as he talks
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Sotheby’s, the Russian billionaire — and the art of the deal

    What a controversial court case involving a Leonardo reveals about the risks and rewards of private art sales for auction houses

    Two people, seen from behind, look at Leonardo’s painting ‘Salvator Mundi’, showing the figure of Christ, smiling gently and holding up a hand in blessing
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