Pearson

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Company Website

http://www.pearsoned.com/

Location

Headquarters: London, UK

Financial Information

  • Public traded at the New York Stock Exchange
  • Annual Operative Revenues (as of 31/12/2008): $4,913,000 (Source: ORBIS)
  • Higher Education Sales (as of 31/12/2008): $2,868,000

Merges and Acquisitions

  • Absorbed: Prentice-Hall, Silver Burdett, Ginn, Addison Wesley, Longman, and Scott Foresman
  • 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." (Source: ORBIS)

Business Strategy

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