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    Pearson plc is a multinational corporation, headquartered in the UK, focused on educational publishing and services. Originating in 1844 and named S....
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    Pearson plc. The subsidiary was formed in 1998, when Pearson plc acquired Simon & Schuster's educational business and combined it with Pearson's existing...
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    Pearson plc, the construction, now publishing, company founded by his ancestor in the 19th century. He is the eldest son and heir of Weetman Pearson,...
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  • owned by British Pearson plc, the global media company which also owned the Financial Times. When Penguin Random House was formed, Pearson had a 47% stake...
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  • Samuel Pearson (1814–1884) was an English entrepreneur and founder of Pearson plc, a leading education (originally construction) company listed on the...
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  • Pearson PLC offers various international standardized tests of English language proficiency for non-native English language speakers. The tests include...
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  • shareholding passed to Pearson plc when they bought The Financial Times Limited (FT) in 1957. Later, however, when Pearson plc was negotiating the sale...
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  • Pearson may refer to: Lester B. Pearson College, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Pearson College (UK), London, owned by Pearson PLC Lester B. Pearson...
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  • Addison-Wesley (category Pearson plc)
    publisher of textbooks and computer literature. It is an imprint of Pearson plc, a global publishing and education company. In addition to publishing...
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    executive. She is the former CEO of Pearson PLC. Scardino became a trustee of Oxfam during her tenure at Pearson. She was criticized by Private Eye magazine...
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    Pearson College London was a British higher education institution, founded in 2012; it was based in London and was previously owned by Pearson plc. The...
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  • Edexcel (redirect from Pearson Edexcel)
    since 2013 as Pearson Edexcel) is a British multinational education and examination body formed in 1996 and wholly owned by Pearson plc since 2005. It...
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    World News Broadcasting News UK Newsquest Northern & Shell Pearson plc Press Holdings Reach plc RELX Reuters Sky STV Group Syco TalkTalk Group Paramount...
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    BSB licences and compete with BSkyB. News International received 50%, Pearson PLC 17.5%, Chargeurs 17.5%, Granada 12%, and Reed International 2% of the...
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    10, 2007). "Camera rolling on studio renaissance". Financial Times. Pearson PLC. Retrieved December 20, 2014. "Tom Cruise". National Space Society. Archived...
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  • suite of tests are computerized tests of spoken language available from Pearson PLC. Versant tests were the first fully automated tests of spoken language...
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  • Viscount Rothermere and became chair of parent Daily Mail and General Trust plc. After almost 100 years in Fleet Street, the company left its original premises...
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  • game shows locally in the United States and globally. On 23 April 1993, Pearson plc bought Thames Television, which had been one of the "Big Five" franchisees...
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    Sams Publishing (category Pearson plc)
    for technical training manuals owned by the global education company Pearson plc. Sams Publishing was founded in 1946 by Howard W. Sams, originally producing...
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    partnership with Verizon Communications to develop 5G content. In 2021, Pearson PLC announced a partnership with Fuller to create a new global education...
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  • Andy Bird (section Pearson)
    chairman of Walt Disney International until 2018. Bird was the CEO of Pearson plc from October 2020 until his retirement on 8 January 2024. Bird was born...
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    debt. As a direct result, DK was taken over the following year by the Pearson plc media company and made part of Penguin Group, which also owned the Penguin...
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    UBM plc was a British business-to-business (B2B) events organiser headquartered in London, England, before its acquisition by Informa in 2018. It had...
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  • acquisition of Prentice-Hall by Pearson plc, ownership and management of the New York Institute of Finance moved to Pearson plc, which owns both the New York...
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    Longman (redirect from Pearson Longman)
    Longman, also known as Pearson Longman, is a publishing company founded in 1724 in London, England, which is owned by Pearson PLC. Since 1968, Longman has...
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  • Financial Times (category Pearson plc)
    Pearson plc since 1957, for £844m (US$1.32 billion) and the acquisition was completed on 30 November 2015. Under the transaction agreement, Pearson retained...
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    established what would become Future US in 1994. Anderson sold the company to Pearson plc for £52.7m in 1994, but bought it back in 1998, for £142 million. The...
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  • 2013, with Bertelsmann initially owning 53% of the joint venture, and Pearson PLC initially owning the remaining 47%. Since 18 December 2019, Penguin Random...
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  • was established by Bertelsmann, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL), and Pearson plc in 2000. As of 2024 Bertelsmann, a conglomerate based in the German city...
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  • Allyn & Bacon (category Pearson plc)
    It is an imprint of Pearson Education, the world's largest education publishing and technology company, which is part of Pearson PLC. Allyn & Bacon was...
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