PEARSON ENTERS UK SCHOOL SOFTWARE MARKET WITH ACQUISITIONS.Pearson Plc. (London) has acquired Phoenix First and SummIT for Schools Ltd. (Edinburgh), two providers of management and information systems to the UK education market. No terms of the deal were given. The two units become a part of Pearson Education Pearson Education is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. Pearson Education is part of Pearson PLC. It is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ). Phoenix First is the leading educational software provider in Scotland, serving 1500 out of Scotland's 3100 schools. It has a smaller presence in Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. and England. It flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. is Phoenix Central, software that allows systems for local education authorities to manage, analyze and share data on pupil performance. SummIT for Schools, owned by the same management as Phoenix First, produces software for teachers to track students' progress. The two companies had combined 2000 revenues of about [pound]2 million. Pearson Education ceo Peter Jovanovich said "we see major opportunities to grow our business in the UK. Phoenix will play an important role in helping to meet this (increased) demand." Pearson Education includes the former HarperCollins Educational Publishing units and a number of major imprints, including Prentice Hall Prentice Hall is a leading educational publisher. It is an imprint of Pearson Education, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA. Prentice Hall publishes print and digital content for the 6-12 and higher education market. History In 1913, law professor Dr. , Longman, Addison Wesley, Pearson Learning and Scott Foresman, among others. |
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