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For all press and media enquiries please contact:
The 'Promethean Press Centre'
Telephone +44(0) 207 632 3905
Email - prometheanpress@waggeneredstrom.com
Tracey McLaine, Promethean Group Press Officer Telephone +44 (0) 1254 290752 Email - tracey.mclaine@prometheanworld.com
Promethean Group Company Factfile
Promethean is a global leader in interactive learning technology that empowers teachers to engage, educate, assess and motivate learners. Developed by and for educators, its award-winning products help teachers to prepare digital lessons quickly and with greater ease. The technology enables them to create, customize and integrate text, web, video and audio content, so they can more easily capture students’ attention and accommodate different learning styles.
Promethean Activclassroom solutions are helping educators teach and students learn worldwide with Activboard, the world’s most durable interactive whiteboard technology; Activstudio, a software platform for secondary teaching; and Activprimary, the only product designed specifically for use in primary schools and kindergarten. It also offers wireless hand-held Learner Response Systems that permit instantaneous assessment of pupils’ comprehension of lessons. Beyond the classroom, Promethean offers training and support to ensure maximum results and return on investment, while also hosting the world’s largest online interactive whiteboard community, www.prometheanplanet.com.
Promethean is headquartered in Blackburn in the United Kingdom. Its products are distributed through a network of partners and inspire millions of learners in more than 70 countries.
Promethean - Corporate background
Promethean is a global leader in interactive learning technology that empowers teachers to engage, educate, assess and motivate learners. Developed by and for educators, our award-winning products help teachers to prepare digital lessons quickly and with greater ease.
Founded by Chairman, Mr H.A.Cann, Promethean began life in 1977 as Terminal Display Systems Ltd specialising in graphic display systems and digitisers. Since then we have experienced tremendous growth and development; establishing Promethean as a leading developer of collaborative classroom systems, currently installed in over 100,000 classrooms worldwide.
The company has grown rapidly with turnover doubling year on year - approaching over £100million in 2007. Promethean’s status as a leading provider of complete interactive technology solutions to the education sector has been achieved in less than five years.
Our determination to transform learning and knowledge transfer has led to us becoming a global leader. Promethean leads the development of interactive technology: we were the first company to introduce education-specific interactive whiteboard software, the first to launch integrated voting products, the first with integrated board and short throw projector and the first interactive whiteboards with multi-input capability.
Following an extensive brand review in April 2004, the decision was taken to align all of the ancillary divisions within the Group under one globally identifiable name, and in September 2004, ‘Promethean Technologies Group Ltd’ was launched – from 2007 this evolved once again and the company became known simply as Promethean.
From a progressive innovation team, to after sales support and continuous professional development, we pride ourselves on listening to the needs of those who use our systems, ensuring we continually provide the highest quality solutions.
By inspiring and enlightening educators, Promethean continually enrich the learning environment, exciting and engaging students, raising the standards for future generations and positively influencing the quality of our society.