There's nothing fishy about information from Pearson, home of salmon-colored newspaper The Financial Times. The media giant provides financial information and business news through its Financial Times Group, which includes The Financial Times (known locally as the "Pink 'Un"), related Web site FT.com, the 50%-owned The Economist, and a 60% stake in US-based financial information provider Interactive Data Corporation. Its Pearson Education unit is the world's top educational publisher of textbooks and related material, through imprints such as Pearson Scott Foresman and Pearson Addison Wesley. Pearson's Penguin Group (Penguin, Putnam, Viking) publishes fiction and non-fiction books, as well as reference titles.

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• Dorling Kindersley Limited
  • Dorling Kindersley Publishing House GmbH
• Financial Times Group
  • The Economist Group Limited
• Interactive Data Corporation
  • Interactive Data Real Time Services, Inc.

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