Pearson Company Description
There's nothing fishy about information from Pearson, home of salmon-colored newspaper The Financial Times. The media giant provides financial information and business news through its Financial Times Group, which includes The Financial Times (known locally as the "Pink 'Un"), related Web site FT.com, the 50%-owned The Economist, and a 60% stake in US-based financial information provider Interactive Data Corporation. Its Pearson Education unit is the world's top educational publisher of textbooks and related material, through imprints such as Pearson Scott Foresman and Pearson Addison Wesley. Pearson's Penguin Group (Penguin, Putnam, Viking) publishes fiction and non-fiction books, as well as reference titles.
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The Company Description provides a historical perspective of Pearson's organization from inception to current status.
Produced by Hoover's in-house editorial team, the Company Description tracks ownership transitions, company progress via mergers and acquisitions, major growth milestones, and strategic initiatives, to provide a holistic view of Pearson's evolution in the marketplace.
