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PEARSON PLC

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2006 Sales	2006 Sales Growth	2006 Net Income	2006 Employees
$8,104,800,000	15.0%	$668,000,000	34,341

Key Executives: PSO

Name	Title	Officer Since
Marjorie Scardino	CEO	1/1/97
Robin Freestone	CFO	6/12/06
David Bell	Director/Other Corporate Officer	3/1/96
David Arculus	Director	2/1/06
Susan Fuhrman	Director	7/1/04
Glen Moreno	Chairman of the Board/Director	10/1/05
John Makinson	Divisional CEO/Divisional Chairman of the Board	-
Rona A. Fairhead	CEO, Divisional/Chairman of the Board, Divisional	6/1/02

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David Bell became a director in March 1996. He was appointed Pearson"s director for people with responsibility for finding, keeping, rewarding and inspiring our employees across the Pearson Group. He is chairman of the Financial Times and Sadler"s Wells Theatre. He is also chairman of Crisis, a charity for the homeless and The Institute for War and Peace Reporting.... View Full Profile

David Bell

David Arculus became a non-executive director in February 2006 and currently serves on the audit and nomination committees and as chairman of the personnel committee. He is a non-executive director of Telefonica SA, and was previously chairman of O2 plc from 2004 until it was acquired by Telefonica at the beginning of 2006. His previous roles include chairman of Severn Trent plc and IPC Group, chief operating officer of United Business Media plc... View Full Profile

David Arculus

Susan Fuhrman became a non-executive director in July 2004. She is a member of the audit and nomination committees. She is president of Teachers College at Columbia University, America"s oldest and largest graduate school of education having previously been Dean of the Graduate school of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and an officer... View Full Profile

Susan Fuhrman

Glen Moreno was appointed chairman of Pearson on October 1, 2005. He is the senior independent director of Man Group plc and a director of Fidelity International Limited.... View Full Profile

Glen Moreno

Robin Freestone became a director of Pearson and was appointed chief financial officer on June 12, 2006, having previously served as deputy chief financial officer since 2004. He was previously group financial controller of Amersham plc (now part of GE), having joined Amersham as chief financial officer of their health business in 2000. He is also a non-executive director and founder shareholder of eChem Limited.... View Full Profile

Robin Freestone

John Makinson became chairman of the Penguin Group in May 2001 and its chief executive officer in June 2002. He served as Pearson"s finance director from March 1996 until June 2002. He is also chairman of the Institute of Public Policy Research and a director of The International Rescue Committee (UK).... View Full Profile

John Makinson

Marjorie Scardino joined the board and became chief executive in January 1997. She is a member of Pearson"s nomination committee. She trained and practiced as a lawyer and was chief executive of The Economist Group from 1993 until joining Pearson. She is also a non-executive director of Nokia Corporation and a director of several charitable organizations.... View Full Profile

Marjorie Scardino

Rona Fairhead became a director and was appointed chief financial officer of Pearson in June 2002, having previously served as deputy finance director from October 2001. She was appointed chief executive of the FT Group on June 12, 2006 and chairman of Interactive Data in September 2007. From 1996 until 2001, she worked at ICI plc, where she served as executive vice president, group control and strategy, and as a member of the executive committee... View Full Profile

Rona A. Fairhead

Terry Burns became a non-executive director in May 1999 and the senior independent director in February 2004. He currently serves on the nomination and personnel committees. He was the UK government"s chief economic advisor from 1980 until 1991 and Permanent Secretary of HM Treasury from 1991 until 1998. He is chairman of Abbey National plc and Glas Cymru Limited and a non-executive director of Banco Santander Central Hispano. He has been... View Full Profile

Terry Burns

Patrick Cescau became a non-executive director in April 2002. He joined the audit committee in January 2005, and is also a member of the nomination committee. He is currently group chief executive of Unilever.... View Full Profile

Patrick Cescau

Ken Hydon became a non-executive director in February 2006 and currently serves on the nomination committee and as chairman of the audit committee. He is a non-executive director of Tesco plc, Reckitt Benckiser plc and Royal Berks NHS Foundation Trust. He was previously finance director of Vodafone Group plc and of subsidiaries of Racal Electronics.... View Full Profile

Ken Hydon

Will Ethridge joined Pearson in 1998 following the Simon & Schuster education acquisition and was appointed chief executive of the US Higher Education and Professional Group. In 2003 his responsibilities were expanded when he became chief executive of Pearson's Higher Education, International and Professional publishing. In March 2008 he was appointed to a new role as chief executive of Pearson's North American education business, spanning... View Full Profile

Will Ethridge

Coimbatore Krishnarao ('CK') Prahalad is the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. He is a specialist in corporate strategy and the author of a number of bestselling business books including Competing for the Future (with Gary Hamel), The Future of Competition (with Venkratram Ramaswamy) and The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating... View Full Profile

Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad

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Ownership Breakdown : PSO

Large Block Holder Type	Number
Institutions	96.00
Mutual Fund	41.00
Other Major	1.00

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Short Interest Volume: PSO

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Current Short Interest Shares	1.09 B
Current Short Interest Ratio	2.00
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Short Interest as % of Float	—
Average Daily Volume	352,000.00
Outstanding Shares	808.37 M

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SEC Filings: PSO

Accepted Date	Description
07/01/2008	SEC Filing: Foreign Issuer Report
07/01/2008	SEC Filing: Foreign Issuer Report
06/27/2008	SEC Filing: Foreign Issuer Report

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