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Pearson plc is a London-based media conglomerate. It is the largest book publisher in the UK, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second largest in the US and Canada. In 2003 it had sales of £4,048m ($7,246m) and operating profits of £490m ($877m).Pearson started as a building and engineering company in 1844. By 1920, under the name S. Pearson & Son, it was a holding company with businesses in building, oil drilling and refining and financeFinance is the application of the principles of financial economics to an inter-related set of monetary problems. Its aim is in the optimal use of financial instruments. In the case of a company, this generally involves balancing risk and profitability an. In 1920, it purchased a number of local newspaperBrookgreen Gardens Pawleys Island, South Carolina A newspaper is a lightweight and disposable publication, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint, containing a journal of current news in a variety of topics. These topics can include politicals in Britain, which it combined to form the Westminster Press. In 1957Events January January 2 San Francisco and Los Angeles stock exchanges merge. January 3 Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch January 4 After 69 years the last issue of Colliers magazine is published January 5 Russell Endean becomes t, it bought the Financial TimesThe Financial Times FT is an international business newspaper printed on distinctive salmon pink paper. The FT reports extensively on business and features extensive share and financial product listings. It also has a sizeable network of international rep and a 50% stake in The EconomistFebruary 21 2004 The Economist is a weekly news and international affairs publication of The Economist Newspaper Limited in London. Subjects typically covered include international politics, business, finance, science and technology and the arts. The publ. In 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the, it purchased the publisher LongmanLongman is a firm of English publishers. History The founder of the firm, Thomas Longman (1) (1699-1755) was the son of Ezekiel Longman (d. 1708), a gentleman of Bristol. Thomas was apprenticed in 1716 to John Osborn, a Londor bookseller. At the expiratio, and in 19711971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). Events January January 1 British divorce Reform Act comes into force January 2 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland. See Ibrox disaster. Janua, Penguin Group.
During the 1990s, it acquired a number of TV production and broadcasting assets, and rid itself of most of its non-media assets.
Holdings include:
- Book Publishing: Penguin, Allen Lane , Avery , Berkley Books, Dial , Dutton, Dorling Kindersley, Grosset & Dunlap , Hamish Hamilton , Ladybird, Plume , Puffin, Putnam, Michael Joseph , Riverhead , Rough Guides , Viking
- Educational Publishing: Prentice Hall, Scott Foresman, Allyn & Bacon, Addison-Wesley, Longman, Macmillan USA, NCS Pearson, Adobe Press, Que, Cisco Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, National Computer Systems, Learning Network, LessonLab
