BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : JANUARY 22, 2001 ISSUE
COVER STORY Pearson's Growing Empire In each of its segments, the company posted healthy growth rates this year TOTAL SALES*: $5.93 BILLION (+19%) OPERATING PROFITS*: $1.0 BILLION (16%) PEARSON EDUCATION (Publishers Scott Foresman, Prentice Hall, Addison-Wesley Longman; National Computer Systems, and Learning Network) SALES: $3.3 BILLION (+26% from 1999) OPERATING PROFITS: $504 MILLION (+31%) FINANCIAL TIMES GROUP (Financial Times, French business paper Les Echos, Spanish paper group Recoletos, online financial-data business) SALES: $1.3 BILLION (+21%) OPERATING PROFITS: $285 MILLION (+25%) PENGUIN GROUP (Penguin, Putnam, Dorling Kindersley, and Viking imprints) SALES: $1.1 BILLION (+35%) OPERATING PROFITS: $112 MILLION (+15%) * For 2000, excludes Internet, goodwill, and exceptionals DATA: MORGAN STANLEY DEAN WITTER _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _					RELATED ITEMS Chapter 2 at Pearson COVER IMAGE: Pearson's Big Bet TABLE: Pearson's Growing Empire TABLE: Scardino the Dealmaker RESUME: Marjorie Scardino PHOTO: Marjorie Scardino The Financial Times Takes On the World ONLINE EXTRA: Scardino: "It Is Not Enough to Be a Content Company" INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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