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Pearson plc
Company type	Public limited company
Traded as	LSE: PSON; NYSE: PSO; FTSE 100 Component
ISIN	GB0006776081
Industry	Education Mass media
Founded	1844; 181 years ago (as S. Pearson & Son); London, England, U.K.
Founder	Samuel Pearson
Headquarters	80 Strand (Shell Mex House), London, United Kingdom
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)
Operating income	£553 million (2018)
Net income	£590 million (2018)
Website	pearson.com

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]

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. 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

[prelims-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Preliminary Results 2018" (PDF). Retrieved 10 March 2019.

[s-2] Spender, J. A., Weetman Pearson: First Viscount Cowdray (London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1930).

[3] "The World's 54 Largest Publishers, 2017". Publisher's Weekly. 2017-08-25. Retrieved 2017-11-29.

[4] "Private equity to buy Pearson's IDC for $3.4 billion". Reuters. 4 May 2010. Retrieved 18 August 2010.

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