Publishing group Pearson has marginally increased its earnings guidance for 2011 on the back of strong growth in its digital services.
For the year as a whole, Pearson generated around £2bn of digital revenues and some £600m of revenues in emerging markets. The group now expects to report 2011 adjusted earnings per share (EPS) growth of about 10% from 2010's EPS of 77.5p, ahead of previous guidance of around 83p per share.
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