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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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  • 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
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    LVMH
    Succession at LVMH will test the Arnault family’s bonds

    The clan that controls the luxury and fashion group is drawing closer to having to make a difficult choice

    Bernard Arnault with his wife and four of his children, from left, Frédéric, Delphine, Antoine and Alexandre
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Insurance
    The black box that could ease your car insurance problems

    As the price of cover rises, more people will adopt technology to watch them driving carefully

    Traffic moves slowly along the M62 motorway near Saddleworth Moor in the Pennines
  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
    Boeing Co
    Boeing is not responding to its 737 Max change of course

    The near-disastrous accident on an Alaska Airlines flight shows the aerospace company still struggles to improve safety

    An investigator examines the frame on a section of the Alaska Airlines aircraft
  • Friday, 5 January, 2024
    Intellectual property
    Mickey Mouse should help other characters to escape copyright

    The hero of Walt Disney’s ‘Steamboat Willie’ has entered the public domain but others deserve their freedom, too

    A still of Mickey Mouse in ‘Steamboat Willie’
  • Saturday, 23 December, 2023
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Rejoice that Santa Claus gives prime delivery to everyone

    Macy’s is right to recognise that express lanes and priority fulfilment are not in the Christmas spirit

    The flagship Macy’s store in Manhattan
  • Friday, 15 December, 2023
    Technology sector
    Google and Apple’s app stores are cash machines

    This week’s antitrust victory for Epic Games may disrupt two lucrative digital outlets

    An image from ‘Fortnite’
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    Nvidia
    Nvidia played its way to the domination of AI

    Games were at the cutting edge of computing long before machine learning

    Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia, speaks during a Hon Hai Precision Industry event in Taipei, Taiwan, in October
  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    Sport
    Manchester City’s bonuses beat those on Wall Street

    The superstar effect of being a famous footballer has the edge over investment banking

    Manchester City’s Erling Braut Haaland scores a goal from the penalty spot
  • Friday, 10 November, 2023
    Adidas AG
    Adidas needs to rediscover its creativity after Yeezy

    The German brand cannot just rely on collaborations and sporting heritage to drive sales of its sneakers

    A shopper browses the sport shoes at an Adidas store in Germany
  • Friday, 3 November, 2023
    Unions
    The United Auto Workers teach university lecturers how to strike

    US carworkers have been cleverer with industrial action than the UK’s University and College Union

    University staff strike in London. The University and College Union ‘s weakness was that its strikes did not hit university revenues because students kept on enrolling
  • Friday, 27 October, 2023
    Restaurants
    A £760 steak from Japan must be very well done

    An old Tokyo steakhouse is bringing quiet culinary luxury to London at an extremely high price

    A plate of wagyu beef
  • Friday, 27 October, 2023
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    The Fall by Michael Wolff — a combative view of Murdoch’s endgame

    The biographer returns to the media mogul and finds a once-powerful figure shaded by ‘doubt, ambivalence, regret’

  • Friday, 20 October, 2023
    Airlines
    Stop blocking the aisle: how to board an aircraft

    United Airlines is trying to ease the jam of passengers but priority boarding makes it worse

    People board a busy commercial aircraft
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