Financial Times and Penguin Books owner Pearson yesterday reported a 13 per cent rise in annual profits after it weathered the storm affecting advertising and consumer books.
The group’s US education publishing arm had annual sales of £2.5 billion. This helped the FT Group and Penguin, where profits fell by 4 per cent to £187 million and 10 per cent to £84 million.
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