Expiration of Offers to Purchase Notes

RNS Number : 9446N

Pearson PLC

14 August 2017

 

Pearson Announces the Expiration of its Offers to Purchase for Cash 3.75% Notes due 2022 and 3.25% Notes due 2023

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14 August 2017

London - On 4^th August 2017, Pearson announced the launch of market tenders, through its subsidiaries Pearson Funding Four plc and Pearson Funding Five plc (the "Issuers"), to repurchase all or any of its $500m 3.75% US Dollar Notes due 2022 (the "2022 Notes") and $500m 3.25% US Dollar Notes due 2023 (the "2023 Notes"). The tenders have now closed, and $385,389,000 of the 2022 Notes and $406,049,000 of the 2023 Notes will be bought back and cancelled. The Issuers or Pearson may in future make further market purchases of the 2022 Notes and/or the 2023 Notes as part of Pearson's ongoing treasury management activities.

For more information:

Telephone: [phone]

Investors: Tom Waldron

Press: Tom Engel, Tom Steiner

Treasury: Katharine Good, Sunil Boorman

 

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