FT continues to thrive

The Financial Times again increased its year-on-year circulation in July - but the paper now sells more copies in the US than in the UK.
In the UK, the business paper sold 124,675 copies in July, of which 75,431 were at full price; compared with its US edition, which sold 127,106 copies.

In continental Europe, the FT edition sold 124,813, also outstripping UK-only sales, while the Asian edition sold 40,054 copies.

The combined UK and Irish Republic edition of the FT sold 134,478 copies in July, to give the global sales of the paper a daily average of 426,451.

This was a hefty month-on-month circulation fall of 4.12%, offsetting its year-on-year rise of 0.69%.

The Financial Times - which redesigned in April - had its highest global sale in the past five years of 501,594 in March 2002.

Audit Bureau of Circulations figures for July showed all other quality daily papers down year on year, with only the Times and the Independent recording month-on-month rises.

The Guardian's July headline sale was 362,309 copies, down 0.34% on June and down 2.24% on July 2006.

Promotions by the Guardian in July included guides to the Tour de France and the seaside and supplements on salads, foraging and parks. The Guardian's full-price sale was 82.1% of its total circulation.

The Times sold an average of 635,653 copies in July, a rise of 0.28% on June but a fall of 4.77% year on year.

Full-price sales of the Times accounted for 69.6% of its total circulation.

The Independent sold an average of 240,116 in July, a rise on June of 0.77% but a year-on-year fall of 4.25%.

The Daily Telegraph kept its circulation falls to less than 1% compared with June and July last year.

It sold an average of 889,289 last month, a fall on June of 0.28%. This was a year-on-year fall of 0.91%.

Stephen Brook, press correspondent
The Guardian