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Pearson plc is a multinational corporation, headquartered in the UK, focused on educational publishing and services.^[1]

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British companies established in 1844
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1844
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Mass media companies established in 1844
Multinational companies headquartered in England
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Publishing companies established in 1844

Aarhus University Press

Aarhus University Press is a commercial foundation, founded in 1985 by Aarhus University, Denmark.

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The Agnelli family is an Italian multi-industry business dynasty family founded by Giovanni Agnelli, one of the original founders of the Fiat motor company which became Italy's largest automobile manufacturer.

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Airwork Services

Airwork Limited, also referred to during its history as Airwork Services Limited, is a wholly owned subsidiary company of VT Group plc.

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Allyn & Bacon

Allyn & Bacon, founded in 1868, is a higher education textbook publisher in the areas of education, humanities and social sciences.

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Amberley Publishing

Amberley Publishing are a firm of publishers in Stroud, Gloucestershire, who specialise in non-fiction transport and history books.

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American depositary receipt

An American depositary receipt (abbreviated ADR, and sometimes spelled depository) is a negotiable security that represents securities of a foreign company and allows that company's shares to trade in the U.S. financial markets.

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Andy Bird

Andy Bird CBE (born 3 January 1964) is a British executive.

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Angela Pearson

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Bertelsmann

The Bertelsmann SE & Co. Pearson plc and Bertelsmann are multinational publishing companies and pan-European media companies.

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Bibliography of encyclopedias: business, information and economics

This is a list of encyclopedias and encyclopedic/biographical dictionaries published on the subject of business, information and information technology, economics and businesspeople in any language.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Blackwall Tunnel

The Blackwall Tunnel is a pair of road tunnels underneath the River Thames in east London, England, linking the London Borough of Tower Hamlets with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, and part of the A102 road.

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Bradford

Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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British Airways Ltd

British Airways Ltd was a British airline company operating in Europe in the period 1935–1939.

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British Continental Airways

British Continental Airways was a British airline that operated between 1935 and 1936, when it merged into British Airways.

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British European Airways

British European Airways (BEA), formally British European Airways Corporation, was a British airline which existed from 1946 until 1974.

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British Satellite Broadcasting

British Satellite Broadcasting plc (BSB) was a television company, based in London, that provided direct broadcast satellite television services to the United Kingdom.

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Business English

Business English is a variety of the English language that can either be an English for specific purposes subset of International English used in international business by non-native speakers of English as a second or foreign language and/or a sociolinguistic register of Standard English used by native-speakers in professional settings.

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Byju's

Byju's (stylised as BYJU'S) is an Indian multinational educational technology company, headquartered in Bengaluru.

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Cadbury family

The Cadbury family is a British family of wealthy Quaker industrialists descending from Richard Tapper Cadbury.

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Cassell (publisher)

Cassell is a British book publishing house, founded in 1848 by John Cassell (1817–1865), which became in the 1890s an international publishing group company.

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Cengage Group

Cengage Group is an American educational content, technology, and services company for higher education, K–12, professional, and library markets.

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Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.

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Coal mining

Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground or from a mine.

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Connections Academy

Connections Academy is a for-profit corporate provider of online school products and services to virtual schools for grades K-12, including full-time online school.

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Cordite

Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in Britain since 1889 to replace black powder as a military firearm propellant.

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Crilly Airways

Crilly Airways Ltd was a former British airline founded by entrepreneur Frederick Leo Crilly.

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DK (publisher)

Dorling Kindersley Limited (branded as DK) is a British multinational publishing company specialising in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 63 languages.

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Dorman Long

Dorman Long & Co was a UK steel producer, later diversifying into bridge building.

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Dover

Dover is a town and major ferry port in Kent, South East England.

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East River Tunnels

The East River Tunnels are four single-track railroad passenger service tunnels that extend from the eastern end of Pennsylvania Station under 32nd and 33rd Streets in Manhattan and cross the East River to Long Island City in Queens.

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Edexcel

Edexcel (also known since 2013 as Pearson Edexcel) is a British multinational education and examination body formed in 1996 and wholly owned by Pearson plc since 2005.

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EdSurge

EdSurge is an education journalism initiative provided by the International Society for Technology in Education.

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Education Week

Education Week is a news organization that has covered K–12 education since 1981.

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Elsevier

Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.

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Ernest William Moir

Sir Ernest William Moir (9 June 1862 – 14 June 1933) was a British civil engineer and the first Moir baronet.

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Euroclear

Euroclear is a Belgium-based financial services company that specialises in the clearing and settlement of securities transactions, as well as the safekeeping and asset servicing of these securities.

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Examination boards in the United Kingdom

Examination boards in the United Kingdom (sometimes called awarding bodies or awarding organisations) are the examination boards responsible for setting and awarding secondary education level qualifications, such as GCSEs, Standard Grades, A Levels, Highers and vocational qualifications, to students in the United Kingdom.

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Fairey Aviation Company

The Fairey Aviation Company Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century based in Hayes in Middlesex and Heaton Chapel and RAF Ringway in Cheshire that designed important military aircraft, including the Fairey III family, the Swordfish, Firefly, and Gannet.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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FTSE 100 Index

The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, FTSE 100, FTSE, or, informally, the "Footsie", is the United Kingdom's best-known stock market index of the 100 most highly capitalised blue chips listed on the London Stock Exchange. Pearson plc and FTSE 100 Index are companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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Gale (publisher)

Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources.

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Goldcrest Films

Goldcrest Films is an independent British distribution, production, post production, and finance company.

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Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax (Scottish-Gaelic: Halafacs or An Àrd-Bhaile) is the capital and most populous municipality of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and the most populous municipality in Atlantic Canada.

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Harcourt (publisher)

Harcourt was an American publishing firm with a long history of publishing fiction and nonfiction for adults and children.

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Harcourt Assessment

Harcourt Assessment was a company that published and distributed educational and psychological assessment tools and therapy resources and provided educational assessment and data management services for national, state, district and local assessments.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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Haymarket Media Group is a privately held media company headquartered in London. Pearson plc and Haymarket Media Group are mass media companies of the United Kingdom.

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Hess Corporation

Hess Corporation (formerly Amerada Hess Corporation) is an American global independent energy company involved in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas.

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Highland Airways Limited

Highland Airways Limited was established in Inverness, Scotland, by Ted Fresson in 1933 to provide passenger and freight air services between the Scottish mainland and the Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland, and between their islands.

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Hillman's Airways

Hillman's Airways was a 1930s British airline which later became part of British Airways.

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HM Factory, Gretna

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Holding company

A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies.

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Holtzbrinck Publishing Group

Holtzbrinck Publishing Group is a privately held German company headquartered in Stuttgart, that owns publishing companies worldwide. Pearson plc and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group are multinational publishing companies.

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Huddersfield

Huddersfield is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England.

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Interrobang

The interrobang, also known as the interabang (often represented by any of the following: ?!, !?, ?!?,?!!, !?? or !?!), is an unconventional punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also known as the interrogative point) and the exclamation mark (also known in the jargon of printers and programmers as a "bang").

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Isaac Pitman

Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 22 January 1897) was an English publisher and teacher of the:English language who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network.

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J. A. Spender

John Alfred Spender CH (23 December 1862 – 21 June 1942) was a British journalist and author.

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John Fallon (businessman)

John Joseph Fallon (born August 1962) is a British businessman.

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Ladybird Books

Ladybird Books is a London-based publishing company, trading as a stand-alone imprint within the Penguin Group of companies.

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Lagardère Publishing

Lagardère Publishing is the book publishing arm of Lagardère Group.

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Lazard

Lazard Inc. (formerly known as Lazard Ltd and Lazard Frères & Co.) is a financial advisory and asset management firm that engages in investment banking, asset management and other financial services, primarily with institutional clients.

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The Libyan Investment Authority (LIA; المؤسسة الليبية للاستثمار) is a government-managed sovereign wealth fund and holding company headquartered in Tripoli, Libya.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London Stock Exchange

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a stock exchange in the City of London, England.

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Longman

Longman, also known as Pearson Longman, is a publishing company founded in London, England, in 1724 and is owned by Pearson PLC.

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Luxembourg

Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxemburg; Luxembourg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe.

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M&F Worldwide

M&F Worldwide Corp. is a privately held holding company based in New York City.

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Macmillan Inc.

Macmillan Inc. was an American book publishing company originally established as the American division of the British Macmillan Publishers.

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Marjorie Scardino

Dame Marjorie Scardino,, FRSA (Morris; born 25 January 1947) is an American-born British business executive.

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Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.

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McGraw Hill Education

McGraw Hill is an American publishing company for educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.

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Mexican Eagle Petroleum Company

Compañía Mexicana de Petróleo El Águila SA, (El Águila for short, called in English the Mexican Eagle Oil Company or Mexican Eagle Petroleum Corporation, was a Mexican oil company in the 20th century. The company, established in 1909, produced and commercialised gasoline and lubricants until it was absorbed by the Royal Dutch Shell in 1959.

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Mexico

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

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Mexico City

Mexico City (Ciudad de México,; abbr.: CDMX; Central Nahuatl:,; Otomi) is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Mindscape (company)

Mindscape was a video game developer and publisher.

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Mondly

Mondly is an educational technology company that develops a freemium language learning platform which includes a website and apps with free and paid courses for 33 languages.

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Muammar Gaddafi

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (20 October 2011) was a Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist who ruled Libya from 1969 until his assassination by rebel forces in 2011.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Stock Exchange

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

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News Corp

News Corporation, stylized as News Corp, is an American mass media and publishing company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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News Corporation

The original incarnation of News Corporation (abbreviated News Corp. and also variously known as News Corporation Limited) was an American multinational mass media corporation controlled by media mogul Rupert Murdoch and headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in New York City.

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Newsquest

Newsquest Media Group Limited is the second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the United Kingdom.

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Nielsen Holdings

Nielsen Holdings plc (or Nielsen) is an American information, data and market measurement firm.

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Northern & Scottish Airways

Northern & Scottish Airways was a regional airline established in Glasgow in 1934.

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Northern Illinois University

Northern Illinois University (NIU) is a public research university in DeKalb, Illinois.

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Omid Kordestani

Omid R. Kordestani (امید کردستانی; born 1963) is an Iranian-American businessman who was the Executive Chairman at Twitter from October 2015 to June 2020 and a board member of the company until October 2022.

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Optical mark recognition

Optical mark recognition (OMR) collects data from people by identifying markings on a paper.

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Oxford Mail

Oxford Mail is a daily tabloid newspaper in Oxford, England, owned by Newsquest.

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Pearson College London

Pearson College London was a British higher education institution, founded in 2012; it was based in London and was previously owned by Pearson plc.

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Pearson Education

Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc.

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Pearson plc

Pearson plc is a multinational corporation, headquartered in the UK, focused on educational publishing and services. Pearson plc and Pearson plc are 1844 establishments in England, British brands, British companies established in 1844, companies in the FTSE 100 Index, companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, construction and civil engineering companies established in 1844, education companies established in 1844, mass media companies established in 1844, mass media companies of the United Kingdom, multinational companies headquartered in England, multinational publishing companies, pan-European media companies and publishing companies established in 1844.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house. Pearson plc and Penguin Books are British brands.

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Penguin Group

Penguin Group is a British trade book publisher and part of Penguin Random House, which is owned by the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.

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Penguin Random House

Penguin Random House LLC is a British-American multinational conglomerate publishing company formed on July 1, 2013, with the merger of Penguin Books and Random House.

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Porfirio Díaz

José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (15 September 1830 – 2 July 1915), known as simply Porfirio Díaz, was a Mexican general, politician, and later dictator who served on three separate occasions as President of Mexico, a total of over 30 years, from 28 November 1876 to 6 December 1876, 17 February 1877 to 1 December 1880, and 1 December 1884 to 25 May 1911.

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Prentice Hall

Prentice Hall was a major American educational publisher.

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Public limited company

A public limited company (legally abbreviated to PLC or plc) is a type of public company under United Kingdom company law, some Commonwealth jurisdictions, and the Republic of Ireland.

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Public works

Public works are a broad category of infrastructure projects, financed and procured by a government body for recreational, employment, and health and safety uses in the greater community.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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RCL Benziger

RCL Benziger is a Roman Catholic book-publishing house founded in 1792 by Joseph Charles Benziger in Einsiedeln, Switzerland.

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Reg Grundy Organisation

Reg Grundy Organisation (founded as Reg Grundy Enterprises, later known as both Reg Grundy Productions and Grundy Television and known informally as Grundy's) was an Australian-based multinational mass media company, primarily involved in television as a production company but also in distribution and licensing.

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RELX

RELX plc (pronounced "Rel-ex") is a British multinational information and analytics company headquartered in London, England. Pearson plc and RELX are companies in the FTSE 100 Index, companies listed on the London Stock Exchange, multinational companies headquartered in England and multinational publishing companies.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Rothschild family

The Rothschild family is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s.

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Rough Guides

Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips.

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Royal Crown Derby

The Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company is the oldest or second oldest remaining English porcelain manufacturer, based in Derby, England (disputed by Royal Worcester, who claim 1751 as their year of establishment).

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Royal Doulton

Royal Doulton is an English ceramic and home accessories manufacturer that was founded in 1815.

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RTL Group

RTL Group S.A. ("Radio Télévision Luxembourg") is a Luxembourg-based international media conglomerate, with another corporate office in Cologne, Germany. Pearson plc and RTL Group are pan-European media companies.

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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi

Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi (سيف الإسلاممعمر القذافي; born 25 June 1972) is a Libyan political figure.

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Samuel Pearson

Samuel Pearson (1814–1884) was an English entrepreneur and founder of Pearson plc, a leading education (originally construction) company listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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Saunders-Roe

Saunders-Roe Limited, also known as Saro, was a British aerospace and marine-engineering company based at Columbine Works, East Cowes, Isle of Wight.

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Scholastic Corporation

Scholastic Corporation is an American multinational publishing, education, and media company that publishes and distributes books, comics, and educational materials for schools, teachers, parents, children, and other educational institutions. Pearson plc and Scholastic Corporation are multinational publishing companies.

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Schroders

Schroders plc is a British multinational asset management company headquartered in London, England. Pearson plc and Schroders are companies in the FTSE 100 Index and companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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Science and Innovation Park

The Science and Innovation Park is a research and cultural site near Swindon, England.

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Science Museum Group

The Science Museum Group (SMG) consists of five British museums.

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Scott Foresman

Scott Foresman was an elementary educational publisher for PreK through Grade 6 in all subject areas.

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Scottish Airways

Scottish Airways was an airline serving most of Scotland, especially the Highlands and Islands.

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Screen International

Screen International is a British film magazine covering the international film business.

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Sennar Dam

The Sennar Dam is an irrigation dam on the Blue Nile near the town of Sennar in the Al Jazirah region of Sudan.

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Shell Mex House

Eighty Strand (formerly Shell Mex House) is a grade II listed building located at number 80 Strand in London, England.

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Shell plc

Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. Pearson plc and Shell plc are British brands, companies in the FTSE 100 Index and companies listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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Silent Valley Reservoir

The Silent Valley Reservoir is a reservoir located in the Mourne Mountains near Kilkeel, County Down in Northern Ireland.

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Silver Burdett

Silver Burdett was an American primary education textbook publishing imprint previously operated by Pearson Education, which is a division of media conglomerate Pearson PLC.

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Silver Lake (investment firm)

Silver Lake, legally Silver Lake Technology Management, L.L.C., is an American global private equity firm focused on technology and technology-enabled investments.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Sky Television (1984–1990)

Sky Television plc was a public limited company which operated a nine-channel satellite television service, launched by Rupert Murdoch's News International on 5 February 1989.

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Sky UK

Sky UK Limited, trading as Sky is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television, internet, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom. Pearson plc and Sky UK are British brands.

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SoftKey

SoftKey International (originally SoftKey Software Products, Inc.) was a software company founded by Kevin O'Leary in 1986 in Toronto, Ontario.

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Spartan Air Lines

Spartan Air Lines Ltd was a British private airline company, in the period 1933–1935.

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Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press (SUP) is the publishing house of Stanford University.

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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Talkback (production company)

Talkback is a British television production company established in 1981 by comedy duo Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones.

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Tax avoidance

Tax avoidance is the legal usage of the tax regime in a single territory to one's own advantage to reduce the amount of tax that is payable by means that are within the law.

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Thames Television

Thames Television, commonly simplified to just Thames, was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding areas from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992.

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The Bookseller

The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is an American newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and student affairs professionals, including staff members and administrators.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA; Yr Archifau Cenedlaethol) is a non-ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Nikkei

The Nikkei, also known as, is the flagship publication of Nikkei, Inc. (based in Tokyo) and the world's largest financial newspaper, with a daily circulation exceeding 1.73 million copies.

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The Northern Echo

The Northern Echo is a regional daily morning newspaper based in the town of Darlington in North East England, serving mainly southern County Durham and northern Yorkshire.

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The Software Toolworks, Inc. (commonly abbreviated as Toolworks), was an American software and video game developer based in Novato, California.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters Corporation is a Canadian-American multinational information conglomerate.

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Tren Interoceánico

The Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec (Ferrocarril del Istmo de Tehuantepec, S.A. de C.V.), also known as Tren Interoceánico, Line Z (Línea Z), Ferrocarril Transístmico (Isthmic Railroad) or simply Ferroistmo, is part of the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, owned by the Mexican government, that crosses the Isthmus of Tehuantepec between Puerto Mexico, Veracruz, and Salina Cruz, Oaxaca.

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

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United Airways Limited

United Airways Ltd was a British airline operating in 1935, ending as part of British Airways Ltd.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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University of Kent

The University of Kent (formerly the University of Kent at Canterbury, abbreviated as UKC) is a semi-collegiate public research university based in Kent, United Kingdom.

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University of Reading

The University of Reading is a public research university in Reading, Berkshire, England.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Veracruz (city)

Veracruz, also known as Heroica Veracruz, is a major port city and municipal seat for the surrounding municipality of Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico and the most populous city in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

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Vision West Nottinghamshire College

Vision West Nottinghamshire College is the trading name of West Nottinghamshire College, a further education college having two main campuses in Mansfield, with smaller sites at nearby Sutton in Ashfield and Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England.

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Warburg Pincus

Warburg Pincus LLC is a global private equity firm, headquartered in New York City, with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil, China, Southeast Asia and India.

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Weetman Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray

Weetman Dickinson Pearson, 1st Viscount Cowdray, (15 July 1856 – 1 May 1927), known as Sir Weetman Pearson, Bt between 1894 and 1910, and as Lord Cowdray between 1910 and 1917, was a British engineer, oil industrialist, benefactor and Liberal politician.

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Westland Aircraft

Westland Aircraft was a British aircraft manufacturer located in Yeovil, Somerset.

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Whitehall Securities

Whitehall Securities Corporation Ltd was formed in 1907 by Weetman Pearson MP and his son Harold Pearson MP.

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Wiley (publisher)

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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References

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