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Language Line Services Acquires Pacific Interpreters
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly
on
January 7, 2013
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Today, California-based Language Line Services (LLS) announced the acquisition of long-time competitor and Oregon-based telephone interpreting company Pacific Interpreters. This announcement, which results in a telephone interpreting company with a reported US$300 million in revenue, really comes as no surprise. It was only a matter of time until LLS
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STP Nordic Strengthens Its Niche with New Acquisition
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly
on
May 4, 2012
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UK-based translation company STP Nordic announced today that it completed the acquisition of fellow Scandinavian language specialist Tranflex. Earlier this week, we spoke with Jesper Sandberg, the CEO and founder of STP Nordic to learn more about the acquisition and how it will affect the company’s future.
Here are some points to observe regarding
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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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Welocalize Says “We Translate” with New Merger
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly
on
February 6, 2012
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Welocalize has completed a merger with Park IP Translations, a specialist in legal and patent translation. A well-known industry consolidator, Welocalize is a veteran of mergers and acquisitions. In fact, it hasn’t even been a full year since the company merged with Boston-based translation provider Avantix Global. We spoke with CEO Smith Yewell
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Applied Language Solutions Sells to Capita Group
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
on
December 23, 2011
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Applied Language Solutions announced that it had been purchased by the Capita Group for £7.5 million (about US$11.7 million at today’s exchange rate), with a further consideration of up to £60 million (US$94 million) based on performance over the next four years. According to the announcement, the Capita Group is the United Kingdom’s
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Acquisition Activity Heats Up in Spain and Elsewhere
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly
on
October 12, 2011
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In a highly fragmented industry like the language services space, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are common, and consolidation is a longstanding trend. However, many of these transactions go unnoticed, especially when they involve companies outside of the list of the Top 50 global suppliers. Two Spanish language service providers (LSPs), Mondragón
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Euroscript Ventures into North America with a New Partnership
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly
on
May 9, 2011
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Luxembourg-based euroscript International announced a joint venture today called BGS euroscript Inc. The company has partnered with Brink Global Solutions, LLC, based in Minneapolis, to form the new company. We sat down with Mark Evenepoel, euroscript International’s Chief Executive Officer, to learn more.
If the name “Brink” sounds
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SDL Makes Play for Global Video Asset Management
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Posted by
Benjamin B. Sargent
on
May 4, 2011
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SDL today announced the acquisition of Calamares, a technology vendor based in the Netherlands with a media asset management solution. The cloud-resident software “allows enterprises to centrally compose, enrich, publish and distribute video and other rich-media assets” and will boost the SDL Tridion product line for web content management
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Accelerating the Pace of Global M&A
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
on
April 19, 2011
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Hardly a week goes by without us receiving a press release heralding a new customer win by a language service provider (LSP), mostly in expected areas like high-tech, manufacturing, and travel. This week, information exchange specialist IntraLinks flipped the equation and announced a strategic deal with Elanex to provide translation for its merger and
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Alpha CRC Acquires Engineering Expertise
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Posted by
Rebecca Ray
on
January 27, 2011
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Earlier this month, Alpha CRC of Cambridge England acquired SQA Partners in Tallinn, Estonia. Director of Sales and Marketing Paul Mangell told us that the acquisition was part of his company’s strategy to provide an integrated, end-to-end globalization solution for its clients.
SQA will add 80 full-time staff to Alpha CRC’s team of
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Amesto Heats Up the Norwegian Language Services Market
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Posted by
Nataly Kelly
on
December 13, 2010
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A foot of snow was due to fall on the morning we spoke with Lars Kleivan, CEO of Amesto Translations. But, with several important developments underway to kick off the new year, the cold weather was hardly a concern.
In the highly competitive and globalized market for translation services, suppliers often source translation wherever they believe
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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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SDL Acquires Language Weaver
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
on
July 15, 2010
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SDL announced today that it was buying machine translation (MT) supplier Language Weaver for US$42.5 million. The MT supplier will become SDL Language Weaver as the entire management and technical team joins SDL as a business unit reporting directly to CEO Mark Lancaster.
Language Weaver CEO Mark Tapling briefed us on what was happening -- and what
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Manpower Acquires COMSYS
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
on
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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SDL Grants WorldServer a Reprieve
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
on
November 4, 2009
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Last month, SDL announced that the "development roadmap for SDL WorldServer continues beyond 2010 as an integral part of 'Project Affinity' (the codename for the next-generation enterprise translation management system from SDL)." This move acknowledges that SDL heard its WorldServer customers' anxiety about the future superceding of that product by
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New League of Investment Firm-Owned LSPs Continues to Grow
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Posted by
Rocio Txabarriaga
on
July 16, 2009
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Recently, companies providing language services and products have become increasingly attractive to external investment firms. This is the case of language services providers (LSPs) like Amesto, Cyracom, Language Line, SDI, Semantix -- and CLS Communication. Until a few years ago, capitalization via investor groups was a rare occurrence in the LSP arena
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Nuance Raises Its Voice with Cash and IBM Patents
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
on
February 17, 2009
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In January, speech technology provider Nuance Communications announced that it received a US$175 million investment from private equity firm Warburg Pincus and that it would acquire patents from IBM, one of its major competitors in the speech recognition sector. Both the size of the investment and the technology transfer between rivals made these announcements
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Predictions for 2008: How Right Were We?
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Posted by
Donald A. DePalma
on
December 23, 2008
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Last year, we peered into the crystal ball of the translation industry to make some predictions for 2008. How well did we fare? Let's take a look.
"Foreign exchange drives more translation and shifts production centers." We said that the shrinking U.S. dollar signaled an opportunity for companies in markets with strong currencies to get more
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Publicly-Traded LSPs Queue Up Earnings Reports
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Posted by
R. Michael Powers
on
July 23, 2008
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The first week of August will offer an interesting "compare and contrast" exercise as SDL announces its second-quarter financial results on the 4th, followed by Lionbridge's earnings report and conference call on August 5th.
One of the differences that we can observe in advance is regulatory -- SDL has already disclosed highlights of the quarter's
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