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...Smart reads Fantasy dealmaking A Pearson buyout is every private equity investor’s dream — a cheap, undervalued asset with potential to adapt to the digital age, the FT’s Cat Rutter Pooley writes....
...Graeme Pitkethly, finance chief and longstanding executive at Anglo Dutch consumer group Unilever, and entrepreneur Sherry Coutu both join as non-executive directors....
...Pearson has made two non-executive appointments to its board, adding Unilever's chief financial officer Graeme Pitkethly and entrepreneur Sherry Coutu from May 1....
...Graeme Pitkethly, the chief financial officer of Unilever, has joined Pearson’s board of directors....
...Additional reporting by Lucy Hornby and Sherry Ju in Beijing...
...Together they expanded the business, which included acquiring 100 per cent of Château Latour in a joint venture with the Pearson family, as well as Cockburn’s Port....
...Lucy Pearson is a former advertising executive who co-founded Unplugged Weekend after meeting a like-minded soul on a retreat in the Sahara....
...I’ve had fun developing the wine list for The Pearson Room [a brasserie in Canada Square], and am getting into sherries....
...As an undergraduate at Oxford I had become good friends with the sons of Pat Gibson, then managing director of Pearson, owners of the FT....
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