Pearson International is headquartered at 80 Strand, London, UK. It previously was located in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. Pearson North America is headquartered at 330 Hudson in New York City, New York. Its online chat support is based in the Philippines. Pearson International is headquartered in London, and maintains offices across Europe, Asia and South America. Pearson Education was rebranded to Pearson in 2011 and split into an International and a North American division.Īlthough Pearson generates approximately 60 percent of its sales in North America, it operates in more than 70 countries. It claims to have been formed in 1840, with the current incarnation of the company created when Pearson plc purchased the education division of Simon & Schuster (including Prentice Hall and Allyn & Bacon) from Viacom and merged it with its own education division, Addison-Wesley Longman, to form Pearson Education. Pearson is part of Pearson plc, which formerly owned the Financial Times. Pearson owns educational media brands including Addison–Wesley, Peachpit, Prentice Hall, eCollege, Longman, Scott Foresman, and others. Pearson Education is a British-owned education publishing and assessment service to schools and corporations, as well for students directly. JSTOR ( May 2013) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).

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