Financial Times (U.K.)
Nikkei to acquire for 160 billion yen
July 24, 2015, Tokyo, Japan - Japan's business daily newspaper, the Nikkei or Nihon Keizai Shimbun and Financial Times newspaper front pages are pictured in Tokyo, on July 24, 2015. Nikkei Inc. announced on Thursday July 23rd the buy-out of the leading British newspaper Financial Times Group from the educational services group Pearson PLC for 844 million pounds (about $1.3 billion,) with a transaction expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2015 and expected to be one of the biggest acquisitions of an overseas business by a Japanese media group ever. (Photo by Yosuke Tanaka/AFLO)