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| Lucy Warwick-Ching, Best Newcomer to Pension and Investment (Aon Consulting Awards). :: Close box :: |
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| Gene Smith from Addison Wesley. Our Higher
Education business in the US grew faster than the
market for a fifth straight year helped by the
strength and quality of our sales teams. :: Close box :: |
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| Adrian Michaels and Peter Spiegel, Business and Finance Reporters of the Year (British Press Awards) for their coverage of US accounting scandals. :: Close box :: |
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| Kate Burgess, National Journalist
of the Year (Bradford & Bingley Personal
Finance Media Awards). Richard Tomkins, Business Journalist of the Year (Business Journalist of the Year Awards). :: Close box :: |
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| Susan Petersen Kennedy, President of Penguin Group
(US), was named the 2004 Matrix Award Honoree in the
Books category. These prestigious annual awards recognise
exceptional women who have distinguished themselves in
the communications field. :: Close box :: |
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| Martin Wolf, Decade of Excellence Award (Business Journalist of the Year Awards). Philip Coggan, Fund Management Journalist |
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| Wendy Craven is editor to bestselling author,
Philip Kotler, who has published with Pearson
Prentice Hall for more than 30 years. In that time,
his classic textbook Marketing Management has
sold more than two million copies and been
translated into 23 languages. :: Close box :: |
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| Chris Marchant, Franco Ziccardi, Gary Francis and Alan Shaw are part of our new distribution team in Rugby in the UK. Our new state-of-the-art warehouse, shared by Penguin and Pearson Education, opens for business in March 2004. :: Close box :: |
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| Rosie Glaisher, publicity director for Penguin Press, led the
team behind a huge UK publicity campaign that helped
propel Michael Moore's Stupid White Men to the top of the
bestseller charts. It has sold more than a million copies and
won Book of the Year at the 2003 British Book Awards. :: Close box :: |
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| Below (clockwise from top): Doris Linka, Brian Moellering,
Helene Dennery, Pascale Pernet, Antoine Cheret, David
Fayerman, Christian Schneider, Paula Parrish, Andy
Peart, Janey Webb, Tom Sigel. We hold regular
international gatherings for our people to share best practice
and ideas. This group of Higher Education people from
across Europe met for an editorial masterclass on how to
grow our local language Higher Education operations. :: Close box :: |
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| DK is famous around the world for its beautiful
design and 'category killer' books. In 2001 we
published the first of a series of major reference
works, Animal, hich has sold more than a million
copies to date. In 2003 we published Earth and
will follow up with four more books over the next
three years. Jonathan Metcalf, publishing director
for DK's family reference books, is part of the
team making this happen. :: Close box :: |
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| Don Kilburn heads our Higher Education custom
publishing business. It has grown from an $18m
business to more than $100m in five years and in
2003 grew by 35%. :: Close box :: |
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| In 2003 we launched our new elementary social
studies programme and won more than half of all
available school adoption opportunities, including
a 60% market share in Indiana and Texas. :: Close box :: |
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| Publisher Ann Godoff joined Penguin in 2003 bringing more than 30 authors with her. Her new imprint, the
Penguin Press, now has a stable of more than 90
authors and will publish 32 books in 2004. :: Close box :: |
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Pam Dorman
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| Penguin editor Pam Dorman spotted the potential of debut
author Sue Monk-Kidd. Her first novel, The Secret Life of
Bees, has sold more than two million copies and been on
the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year. :: Close box :: |
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| Bob Whelan heads our US professional testing business which won $600m of new contracts in 2003. These include
testing learner drivers for the UK's Driving Standards
Agency, business school applicants for the Graduate
Management Admissions Test and securities professionals
for the National Association of Securities Dealers. :: Close box :: |
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| Kathryn Court president and publisher at Penguin
Books US has been editor to J M Coetzee since 1982,
when we published his second novel Waiting for the
Barbarians. In 2003, he was awarded The Nobel Prize
for Literature. :: Close box :: |
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Above:
Jim Stoddart
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| Jim Stoddart, is the art director behind the 2003 relaunch of the Penguin Classics with new content and a fresh design. 19 Penguin Classics made the top 100 in
a UK national poll to find the public's favourite books, showing that they are just as popular today as they were
on their launch in 1936. :: Close box :: |
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Tony Lacey
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| Tony Lacey is editor to Penguin author Claire Tomalin.
She won the Whitbread Book of the Year for Samuel Pepys:
The Unequalled Self, her biography of Samuel Pepys, which
has now sold 330,000 copies, unprecedented for an
historical biography. :: Close box :: |
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| When Oprah Winfrey picked John Steinbeck's East of Eden for her TV book club, an old classic began to fly off the
bookstore shelves. In six months it sold more than
1.5 million copies more than it had sold since publication
in 1952 made possible by an extraordinary effort by our
production and distribution teams. :: Close box :: |
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| John Ridding, Su-Mei Thompson and Ien Cheng are
part of the team who launched the Asia edition of the
Financial Times and www.zhongwen.ft.com, a Chinese
language version of FT.com, in 2003. :: Close box :: |
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| Lyn Fraser (Australia), Mandy Suhr (UK) and Mariann
Donato and left, Marilyn Ducksworth, senior vice
president, Corporate Communications (US) helped Penguin
to make publishing history with the publication of The English
Roses, the first of five children's books by Madonna. This was
the biggest simultaneous worldwide release ever in more
than 30 languages and 100 countries including Australia,
the UK and the US. :: Close box :: |
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| FT.com editor Tracey Corrigan (far right) with team members Paul Solman, Lisa Rohumaa, Eoin Callan and Emma Jacobs. FT.com was honoured with seven awards in
2003 including Best Global Markets Site (Barron's Awards),
Media Prize for Subscription Services and Best Consumer
Site (New Media Age), which described FT.com as 'a monster
of a site'. :: Close box :: |
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| Kenneth Ma, Cynthia Lam and Simon Ng from Longman Hong Kong didn't let SARS interfere with their crucial selling
time and, in fact, increased their sales by more than 100%.
The team created a range of online sales tools and held
seminars for more than 400 teachers. :: Close box :: |
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