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...All the little girls in the town dress as flower girls and rainbow girls and then you sit on a float and then uh . . . then a little girl dresses as Princess Marjorie and pretends to marry a little boy or...
...Other members include former Pearson chief executive Marjorie Scardino and Sheila Bair, former head of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation....
...The group’s board has proposed a 9 per cent increase in the dividend to 42p and said it had about £1bn to spend on acquisitions, which would likely to be “bolt-on” in nature....
...Dame Marjorie Scardino, Pearson’s chief executive, said: “Being able to offer a connective digital spine for learning has been Pearson’s goal for years....
...Last year Pearson invested much of the gain from the sale of its IDC financial information group in bolt-on acquisitions of digital and emerging markets companies, including SEB, a Brazilian education group...
...Dame Marjorie said the £14m profit at FT Publishing, down 40 per cent, was “a very good performance” ....
...And vast mansions continue to be built and rebuilt by the world’s newest rich for lifestyles quite unlike those of most bolt-holes by the beach. This is a kind of Manhattan-on-Sea....
...She would not be drawn on what kind of acquisitions Pearson might make but said they were likely to be “bolt-ons, things which are hugely synergistic” and filled holes in the company’s existing portfolio...
...It said it would invest organically and through bolt-on acquisitions....
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