Pearson plc
Pearson plc is a British multinational publishing and education company. They are headquartered in London. It was created as a construction business in the 1840s, but they changed to publishing in the 1920s.[2] It is the biggest education company, and it was once the largest book publisher in the world.[3][4]
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| Public limited company | |
| Traded as | LSE: PSON NYSE: PSO FTSE 100 Component |
| Industry | Education Mass media |
| Founded | 1844 (as S. Pearson & Son) London, England, U.K. |
| Founder | Samuel Pearson |
| Headquarters | 80 Strand (Shell Mex House), , |
Key people | Sidney Taurel (Chairman) John Fallon (CEO) |
| Products | Publishing (books, newspapers, magazines) |
| Services | Educational assessment School management Higher education |
| Revenue | £4,129 million (2018)[1] |
| £553 million (2018)[1] | |
| £590 million (2018)[1] | |
| Website | pearson |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Preliminary Results 2018" (PDF). Retrieved 10 March 2019.
- ↑ Spender, J. A., Weetman Pearson: First Viscount Cowdray (London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1930).
- ↑ "The World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2017". Publisher's Weekly. 2017-08-25. Retrieved 2017-11-29.
- ↑ "Private equity to buy Pearson's IDC for $3.4 billion". Reuters. 4 May 2010. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64314020100504. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
Other websites
- Pearson plc Official website
- Pearson plc companies grouped at OpenCorporates
- List of Pearson-owned companies Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine from the Columbia Journalism Review