SAMPLE ISSUE OF NEW FINANCIAL TIMES GERMANY DURING PRESENTATION IN HAMBURG, 2000-02-14 (photo)

Olivier Fleurot (L), Managing Director of London Financial Times Group poses with Bernd Kundrun (R), member of the board of German publisher Gruner + Jahr, as they study a sample issue of a German language version of the Financial Times newspaper with the papers editor-in-chief Andrew Gowers (C) during a presentation in Hamburg February 14. The new paper's Publisher Facts & Figures GmbH is a joint venture between Britain's Financial Times Group, a subsidiary of Pearson Plc, and German periodicals publisher Gruner + Jahr, a unit of German media giant Bertelsmann AG. The launch for the German FT is planned on February 21 and it will start with circulation of 50,000 and increase in the medium-term to 120,000, Kundrun said on Monday. CHA/WS