GlobalEnglish

Pearson English Business Solutions
[Owned by Pearson PLC]
Industry Software as a service
Language Learning
Founded Silicon Valley, California
1997
Headquarters Brisbane, California
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Karine Allouche Salanon (CEO)
Nicole Brown (COO)

Pearson English Business Solutions, formerly GlobalEnglish Corporation is an American technology company that was founded in 1997 by Reece Duca, Stephen Patrick and Martin Rice. It is owned by Pearson PLC.

GlobalEnglish provides on-demand enterprise solutions to support global business performance through effective Business English communication. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, and has offices in over 30 countries.

Over the years, the company has been the recipient of awards including the Deloitte Top 50 Fastest Growing Companies in Silicon Valley award[1][2] and the Inc. 5000 award for one of the Fastest Growing Private Companies[3][4] in Silicon Valley. In 2013 the GlobalEnglish Product Suite won the 2013 CODiE Award[5] in education technology for the Best Corporate Learning/Workforce Development Solution.

The Company announced its pending acquisition by Pearson PLC (LSE: PSON), in May 2012 in an all-cash transaction and was officially acquired by Pearson on July 5, 2012.

References

  1. ↑ "Deloitte Fast 50: Index 2008". Deloitte Fast 50: Index 2008. Retrieved June 10, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Deloitte Fast 50: Index 2007" (PDF). Deloitte Fast 50: Index 2007. Retrieved June 10, 2011.
  3. ↑ "2010 Inc. Magazine 5000". 2010 Inc. Magazine 5000. Inc. Magazine. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
  4. ↑ "2009 Inc. Magazine 5000". 2009 Inc. Magazine 5000. Inc. Magazine. Retrieved June 9, 2011.
  5. ↑ http://siia.net/codies/2013/winners.asp
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