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Company description
PEARSON PLC is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Public Limited Company”. Incorporated on 12 August 1897; registered for 129 years. Its primary declared activity is 58190 · Other publishing activities.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 18 trade marks, 3 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- PEARSON PLC
- Company number
- 00053723
- Company type
- Public Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- GROUP
- Mortgage charges
- 5 total · 1 outstanding · 4 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2025Next accounts due
30 June 2027Last statement made up to
20 May 2026Next statement due
3 June 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Workforce reporting
Gender pay gap
- Median bonus gap
- 34.0%
- Mean bonus gap
- 34.0%
- Women receiving bonus
- 87.0%
- Men receiving bonus
- 85.0%
- Women in top quartile
- 47.0%
- Women in upper middle quartile
- 59.0%
- Women in lower middle quartile
- 61.0%
- Women in lower quartile
- 64.0%
Positive gaps mean men were paid more; negative gaps mean women were paid more. These figures are employer-reported and describe the workforce distribution, not equal pay for the same job. The company link uses the exact Companies House number supplied by the service.
04 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
PEARSON PLC
LEI 2138004JBXWWJKIURC57 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- B6ES
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 12 August 1897
- Initial LEI registration
- 10 October 2013
- LEI last updated
- 9 September 2026
- Next renewal
- 1 November 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- 80 STRAND, LONDON, GB-LND, WC2R 0RL, GB
- Headquarters address
- 80 STRAND, LONDON, GB-LND, WC2R 0RL, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- PEARSON PLC
- Group submission
- Yes
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 24 June 2026
- Sectors
- Education and research Media, publishing, arts and entertainment
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Not reported as covered
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Over £500 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 24 June 2026
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
06 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Pearson PLC
Registration Z8675720
- Registered from
- 12 July 2004
- Current end date
- 11 July 2027
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
07 Public procurement
Contracts Finder awards
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INSTITUTE FOR APPRENTICESHIPS · ocds-b5fd17-b98fd50b-d492-403f-ae61-423b83e9a8fa
- Supplier named in award
- PEARSON PLC
- Award value
- £16,475,837
- Contract period
- 30 September 2019 – 30 September 2029
- Published
- 19 February 2021
- Procedure
- Open procedure (above threshold)
- Main CPV
- 80000000
- Source release ID
- ocds-b5fd17-b98fd50b-d492-403f-ae61-423b83e9a8fa-2021-02-19T15:07:49Z
The supplier link is exact, but the award remains buyer-published procurement data. BritDB requires the GB-COH identifier supplied in the Contracts Finder OCDS release and does not infer suppliers from similar names.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
GSE GLOBAL SCALE OF ENGLISH
Owner Pearson plc · classes 9,16,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 22 November 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 November 2026
GSE
Owner Pearson plc · classes 9,16,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 4 November 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 November 2026
P
Owner Pearson plc · classes 9,42
- Filed / designated
- 14 March 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 March 2026
P
Owner Pearson plc · classes 9,42
- Filed / designated
- 14 March 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 March 2026
P Pearson
Owner Pearson plc · classes 9,42
- Filed / designated
- 14 March 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 14 March 2026
PEARSON
Owner Pearson plc · classes 9,16,41,42,44
- Filed / designated
- 15 January 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 January 2026
P
Owner Pearson plc · classes 16,41,44
- Filed / designated
- 25 September 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 September 2025
P
Owner Pearson plc · classes 16,41,44
- Filed / designated
- 25 September 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 September 2025
P PEARSON
Owner Pearson plc · classes 16,41,44
- Filed / designated
- 25 September 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 25 September 2025
PEARSON ALWAYS LEARNING
Owner Pearson plc · classes 9,16,35,38,41,42,45
- Filed / designated
- 22 December 2011
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 December 2021
ALWAYS LEARNING
Owner Pearson plc · classes 16,38,45
- Filed / designated
- 22 October 2010
- Valid until / renewal due
- 22 October 2020
PEARSON TEST OF ENGLISH
Owner Pearson plc · classes 38,41
- Filed / designated
- 20 March 2008
- Valid until / renewal due
- 20 March 2028
PEARSON DRIVING ASSESSMENTS
Owner Pearson plc · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 23 September 2003
- Valid until / renewal due
- 23 September 2023
PEARSON EDUCATION
Owner PEARSON PLC · classes 9,16,41
- Filed / designated
- 16 May 2002
- Valid until / renewal due
- 17 May 2021
PEARSON
Owner Pearson plc · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 2 October 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 2 October 2025
PEARSON
Owner Pearson plc · classes 35,36,38
- Filed / designated
- 12 October 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 12 May 2027
P
Owner Pearson plc · classes 35,36,38
- Filed / designated
- 14 September 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- Not supplied
Figurative mark
Owner Pearson plc · classes 9,16,35,41,42
- Filed / designated
- 2 October 1995
- Valid until / renewal due
- 2 October 2015
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
08 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No PSC entry for this company was present in the imported snapshot.
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
09 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
10 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
11 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
12 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Defence Medical Services (DMS) Service Provider- Delivery of the Level 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker English Apprenticeship (ST0217)
Ministry of Defence · updated 10 March 2026
- Tender value
- £10,000,000
- Awards
- 1
Clinical Assessment Tools TEWV Q Global
TEES, ESK AND WEAR VALLEYS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · updated 30 September 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 1
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
13 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
14 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
15 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
2 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
16 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
17 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Annual employer reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Historic awards linked by exact source-supplied GB-COH company identifier.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.