Get Publishing As Pearson Addison-Wesley

Pearson is a public company headquartered in United Kingdom with an estimated 20,000 employees. In the US, the company has a notable market share in at least three industries: Book Publishing, Testing & Educational Support, Online Tutoring Services and Online Tutoring Services.

The company was founded by Samuel Pearson in 1844 as a building and engineering concern operating in Yorkshire under the name S. Pearson & Son.

In 1988 Pearson plc purchased Addison-Wesley, the sixth-largest publisher of textbooks in the U.S., and merged it with Pearson's educational books subsidiary Longman to create Addison-Wesley Longman.

Addison-Wesley Parent companyPearson EducationFounderLew Addison Cummings, Melbourne Wesley CummingsCountry of originUnited StatesHeadquarters locationBostonPublication typesTextbooks4 more rows

Top 10 Owners of Pearson PLC StockholderStakeShares ownedDimensional Fund Advisors LP0.33%2,338,561Goldman Sachs Asset Management LP0.30%2,073,696Aperio Group LLC0.24%1,668,829Jane Street Capital LLC0.13%898,6756 more rows

Simon & Schuster's educational division, including Prentice Hall, was sold to Pearson plc by G+W successor Viacom in 1998. Subsequently, Pearson absorbed Prentice Hall's higher education and technical reference titles into Pearson Education.

The company was founded by Samuel Pearson in 1844 as a building and engineering concern operating in Yorkshire under the name S. Pearson & Son.