Pearson is the leading worldwide publisher with its two subsidiaries, Pearson Education and Penguin Group. It is the largest book publisher in Great Britain, India, Australia and New Zealand, and the second in the U.S. and Canada.
Pearson has released several press titles via the FT Group subsidiary. It is mostly known for being the publisher of the Financial Times, one of two major business newspapers worldwide, and owns 50% of The Economist, a weekly English and very influential financial magazine. Until 2007-2008, FT Group, also controlled the French daily newspaper Les Echos, which it has since sold to the LVMH group. Their "Education" division has a subsidiary base located in France, Pearson Education France, which publishes books in several collections, including the popular CampusPress.
Pearson Language Tests
Pearson Language Tests is a new sector of the Pearson group dedicated to the evaluation of language. Pearson Language Tests develops tests and examinations to assess and certify the level of EFL learners, such as the London Tests of French and the London Tests of French for Children in association with Edexcel (a Pearson company) and the Pearson Test of A new English test for students of higher learning level on a computerized format (CBT).
The Pearson Test of French (TEP) is offered in collaboration with the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), and will be launched globally in early 2009. The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) also happens to own the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), a standardized test in English to measure skills considered important for the study of management and has passed through more than 200,000 students per year in a hundred countries across the world.