Pearson deliver a strong full year performance, with sales growth and profit exceeding original guidance
Pearson deliver a strong full year performance, with sales growth and profit exceeding original guidance
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Pearson deliver a strong full year performance, with sales growth and profit exceeding original guidance
Operator Good morning, everyone and welcome to Pearson's Full Year Results. Today, we will host a presentation followed by a Q&A session. Please, can you use the chat function, the platform to input your question during the presentation. And with that, we will start the presentation. Andy Bird -- [Video Presentation] Hi, everyone. I'm Andy Bird, Pearson's Chief Executive. Thank you for joining us today. As we've all experienced the world has changed and the world of learning has changed. We are witnessing a significant shift in what, how and where we learn. And today, I'm going to lay out ou...
Pearson 2020 Preliminary Results and strategy update (Unaudited) Resilience despite COVID-19 challenges. Repositioning Pearson for sustainable growth. News provided by Share this article Highlights Underlying revenue declined 10%. Global Assessment 14% lower, and International down 19%. North American Courseware down 13%, with US Higher Education Courseware in line with pre-COVID expectations. Performance in line with revised expectations post COVID-19; with adjusted operating profit of £313m (2019: £581m) Adjusted earnings per share of 28.7p (2019: 57.8p) after an effective tax rate c...