"integrity, accuracy and authority"

The Financial Times, arguably the world's biggest name in business news, is synonymous with integrity, accuracy and authority. Backed up by the strength of this brand, the FT Group is the leading source of information, intelligence and business content for managers, institutional investors and individual investors around the world. Alongside the Financial Times, the other FT Group businesses include FT Business and FT Interactive Data. The FT Group also runs many of the leading business newspapers and magazines across Europe, including FT Deutschland.

The FT Group is one of the businesses of the international media and content company Pearson plc. www.pearson.com

Other FT Group businesses and interests include: Financial Times Deutschland, a German language business newspaper and online service produced in partnership with Gruner + Jahr; FTSE International, a joint venture with the London Stock Exchange which provides leading UK indices and publishes the Eurotop family of indices; Recoletos, publisher of Expansion, Spain's leading business and financial newspaper and website, which also has a 50 per cent stake in its Portuguese counterpart; 50 per cent stake in the Economist Group, which publishes the world's leading weekly business and current affairs journal; a 50 per cent stake in BDFM, publishers of South Africa's leading financial newspapers and website; and a partnership venture with Dow Jones and Vedmosti, Russia's leading business newspaper.

All of the Pearson businesses command rich content, powerful brands and true international reach. Pearson Education, for example, is the leading US school publisher, the leading publisher of online assessment and digital courseware, and the leading higher education publisher; the Penguin Group is the world's premier publisher of English language books and companion online sites, with brands such as Penguin, Rough Guides.com, Ladybird and Puffin.

At Pearson, people are the very core of the business - they create the ideas, words and images upon which our products and brands are all built. These people are chosen for what they can do, not who they are. A lot is expected of them, they are rewarded well, and their development is a top priority. Right across the organisation, Pearson's people are encouraged to live up to the organisation's values: to be

"brave, imaginative and decent"

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