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== Company Website ==
#REDIRECT [[Pearson Education]]
*Pearson Education, Inc.: http://www.pearsoned.com/
*Subsidiary of Pearson PLC: http://www.pearson.com/
 
== Location ==
*Pearson Education, Inc.: Upper Saddle River, NJ (NYC Metropolitan area)
*Peason PLC Headquarters: London, UK
 
== Financial Information ==
* Public traded at the New York Stock Exchange
*Annual Operative Revenues (as of 31/12/2008): $4,913,000 [[Bibliography for Item 6 in EM|(Source: ORBIS)]]
*Higher Education Sales (as of 31/12/2008): $2,868,000
 
== Merges and Acquisitions ==
* Absorbed: Prentice-Hall ''(internationalization strategy)'', Silver Burdett, Ginn, Addison Wesley, Longman, and Scott Foresman ''(internationalization strategy)''
* Also owns: Penguin/Putman, the Financial Times, and The Economist.
 
== Product Divisions ==
* K-12: yes
* Higher-education: yes
* Pearson education: "From pre-school to high school, early learning to professional certification, their textbooks, multimedia learning tools and testing programmes help to educate more than 100 million people worldwide." [[Bibliography for Item 6 in EM|(Source: ORBIS)]]
 
== Business Strategy ==
=== MyLab Course Management Software ===
"Pearson’s strongest digital producer is its MyLab program, which provides online homework, guided solutions, multimedia, tests and e-books and is adaptive to the individual needs of students. In 2007, Pearson increased the number of offerings to 38, supporting more than 2,000 textbooks and used globally by more than 2.9 million students, up more than 30% from 2006." [[Bibliography for Item 6 in EM|(Mickey and Meaney 2008, 14)]]
 
 
== Navigation ==
Back to [[The K-12 Level]]<br>
Back to [[IP Profile of Biggest for-profit companies in EM-K12]]<br>
Back to [[The Higher Education Level]]<br>
Back to [[IP Profile of Biggest for-profit companies in EM]]<br>
Back to [[Educational Materials]]
 
[[Category:Educational Materials]]

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