Pearson Education
Pearson is an education publishing and assessment services to schools and corporations—as well as directly to students. Pearson owns leading educational media brands including Addison–Wesley, BBC Active, Bug Club, eCollege, Fronter, Longman, MyEnglishLab, Penguin Readers, Prentice Hall, Poptropica and Financial Times Press.
Pearson is part of Pearson PLC, which also owns Penguin Books and the Financial Times. It was created in 1998 when Pearson PLC purchased the education division of Simon & Schuster from Viacom and merged it with its own education division, Addison–Wesley Longman to form Pearson Education. Pearson Education was rebranded to Pearson in 2011, and split into an International and a North American division.
Though Pearson generates approximately 60% of its sales in North America, they operate in more than 70 countries. Pearson International is headquartered in London with offices across Europe, Asia and South America.
Pearson North America is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey with major divisions based in San Francisco, Boston, Columbus, Indianapolis and Chandler.
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