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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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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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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Penguin Books (section Pearson takeover)
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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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"Jürgen Geissinger, Schaeffler chief executive". The Financial Times. Pearson PLC. Retrieved 4 July 2013. Schaeffler Technologies. "Schaeffler business...
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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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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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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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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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publishing imprint previously operated by Pearson Education, which is a division of media conglomerate Pearson PLC. The trademark was last owned by Savvas...
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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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Sky Group (redirect from British Sky Broadcasting Group plc)
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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write for The New York Times, and Marjorie Scardino later became CEO of Pearson PLC. "Georgia Historic Newspapers". Retrieved January 22, 2020. McNeil, Donald...
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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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Fremantle (company) (redirect from Pearson Television)
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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had a revenue of US$150 million. In May that year, it was acquired by Pearson plc for $462 million, which converted it to bear the Mindscape identity by...
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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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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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Plume (publisher) (category Pearson plc)
Plume is a publishing company in the United States, founded in 1970 as the trade paperback imprint of New American Library. Today it is a division of Penguin...
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