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The 2013 “State of the Industry” Survey is Open!
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Posted by
Vijayalaxmi Hegde
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January 8, 2013
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Common Sense Advisory today launched its annual survey of the global language services market. Now in its eighth year, the survey captures comprehensive data related to language services and technology. Why should you participate?
Receive a free report. All qualified respondents will receive a copy of the report we published in May of last year
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Language Service Providers Solidify Their Place on the Inc. 5000
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Posted by
Vijayalaxmi Hegde
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September 18, 2012
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Language service providers (LSPs) continue to maintain their place in the yearly Inc. 5000 ranking. This year, 20 translation and interpreting companies made it to the list, up from just 15 in 2010 and 18 in 2011. As we saw last year, the three-year growth rate of LSPs listed by Inc. exceeds the overall pace of the language services sector
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The Size and Shape of the Language Services Industry in 2012
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly
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May 31, 2012
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This year marks the seventh year that Common Sense Advisory has published estimates of the size of the language services market and its compound annual growth rate. Each time, we publish more detail than the year before, and 2012 is no exception. In addition to publishing rankings for nine different geographies (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Northern
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HiSoft Acquires Spanish LSP Logoscript
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
on
March 20, 2012
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Earlier this month HiSoft briefed us on its acquisition of Logoscript. HiSoft, a technology services provider headquartered in Dalian, China, last year was number 20 on Common Sense Advisory’s list of 50 largest language service providers (LSPs) with language service revenue of US$38.5 million. Logoscript, a smaller privately held LSP based in
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What Do the 50 Largest LSPs in the World Have In Common?
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly
on
June 1, 2011
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Not all that much, actually. While the word “competition” always rears its head when discussing translation and interpreting, the reality is that this year’s list of the top-ranked global language service providers (LSPs) do not all necessarily compete with each other. Some are military contractors, while others focus on commercial
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Our Most Comprehensive Global Market Study Yet
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly, Donald A. DePalma
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January 21, 2011
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Reviewing your final numbers for 2010? We’re ready to take a look at them too. It’s time to kick off our annual study of the global market for language services and technology. Last year, we developed what we believe to be the world’s most complete directory of language service providers (LSPs). Our database contains nearly 25,000
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Welocalize Gets Major Investment to Keep On Growing
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma, Nataly Kelly
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November 23, 2010
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Over the past year, Common Sense Advisory has fielded an increasing number of inquiries from venture capital firms, private equity groups, language service providers (LSPs), and other service and technology companies interested in investing in the language service sector. Yesterday, Riverside Partners announced that they were investing US$34 million
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The World of Language Services Just Keeps Getting Bigger
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly
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May 28, 2010
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Less than two short months ago, we issued a public call for participation in our annual global study of the language services market. Today, we are pleased to announce the publication of our hot-off-the-press ranking of the Top 35 language service providers -- accompanied by a few other noteworthy pieces of new research.
This year, due to popular
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Manpower Acquires COMSYS
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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February 3, 2010
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Yesterday employment services provider Manpower announced that it would acquire COMSYS IT Partners, a professional staffing firm. Both companies offer language services in their portfolio -- Manpower is the fourteenth largest company on our list of top 30 language service providers (LSPs), generating US$55 million in language-related revenue in 2008
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Top 30 LSPs Errata
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Posted by
Renato S. Beninatto
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June 5, 2009
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Every year, right after we publish our ranking of translation companies, we receive several messages with comments and questions ranging from people who think that our numbers are too small or too big, to names of companies that they believe should be included in our list but somehow escaped our notice. We usually address these questions on an individual
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RWS Posts US$52 Million in Revenues for First Half FY2008
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Posted by
Renato S. Beninatto
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June 3, 2008
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The challenge with rankings like our Top 25 Translation Companies is that successful language service providers don't stagnate -- and they keep on publishing results. Fortunately for us, the news from RWS -- the U.K.-based company ranked number 10 in our list -- corroborates our assessments about growth in the translation business. RWS's fiscal year
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Coto Acquires Lingo Systems
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Posted by
Renato S. Beninatto
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June 14, 2006
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June has become the month for acquisitions, although the companies involved in this year's round of couplings have been positioning their purchases as "mergers." A big driver of the merger concept is to make the owner/operator of the acquired firm (M2, for example) feel more comfortable about being absorbed into a bigger entity. This approach isn't
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Welocalize Races to the Middle Tier
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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December 13, 2005
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After we heard that this long-rumored deal had been signed, we spoke with Smith Yewell and Eugene McGinty, CEOs of Welocalize and Connect Global. Welocalize will book US$13 million this year, while Connect Global’s will bring in US$7 million. That aggregated US$20 million means that Welocalize could leap onto our list of top 20 language companies
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Ranking of Top 20 Translation Companies
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
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July 1, 2005
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What a difference a day (or two) makes. Just last week we published our "Ranking of Top 15 Translation Companies," ordered by revenue. Then Lionbridge delivered on a matter we've been speculating on since February -- it acquired Bowne Global Solutions, thus becoming the largest language services company on the planet.With all this turmoil in the industry
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