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Financial Printer Takara Expands into SE Asia through TRANSLASIA Investment

2 years ago

March 29, 2019

Financial Printer Takara Expands into SE Asia through TRANSLASIA Investment

M&A and Funding ·

by Andrew Smart

On March 29, 2019

2 years ago
M&A and Funding ·

by Andrew Smart

On March 29, 2019

Financial Printer Takara Expands into SE Asia through TRANSLASIA Investment

Tokyo-listed Takara Printing has invested in Singapore language service provider TRANSLASIA Holdings to spearhead its expansion into East and Southeast Asia. While terms of the deal, announced at LITAsia on March 26, 2019, were not disclosed, TRANSLASIA confirmed to Slator that Takara’s majority stake was “over 60%”.

Seiichiro Akutsu, President of Takara Printing, told attendees that the investment was based on Southeast Asia’s growth potential, as its share of global GDP is expected to rise “from 31% in 2015 to 36% in 2030”. He added that “Southeast Asia has become a major focus of overseas operations for Japanese companies with more than 3,000 Japanese employees spread across Southeast Asia.”

Ryusuke Okada, Managing Executive Officer of Takara Printing and Chairman of TRANSLASIA, said in a release: “We expect the growth of e-Commerce in this region to be immense and TRANSLASIA Holdings is strategically positioned to take advantage of this with its unique expertise in this region.”

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Evolution to Solutions Provider

TRANSLASIA was incorporated in 2017 to house Elite Translations, founded in 2006, Elite Interpreters and AISA Digital, which offers integrated localization solutions to online businesses and ecommerce portals. Revenues for the combined businesses was SGD 3.6m (USD 2.7m) in 2018 and is forecasted to grow past SGD 4m this year as the company works with Takara Printing to serve its clients in Japan and Southeast Asia.

The AISA Digital solution launched at LITAsia is a hybrid model using machine translation technologies licensed and adapted from A*STAR’s commercialization arm A*CCELERATE, a cloud-based localization platform, and a marketplace solution for ASEAN linguists using Smartcat.

“Utilizing the local language effectively is critical for the success [of companies] in new markets. In the context of Asia this situation is even more complicated,” said Hong Yin Yin, CEO of TRANSLASIA Holdings. “Our vision is to be the business partner of expanding companies. To assist them to navigate and communicate effectively across Asia by overcoming the business complexities that arise from the culture and linguistic barriers.”
The announcement of Takara Printing’s investment in TRANSLASIA follows quickly after their acquisition of TOIN, one of Japan’s oldest LSPs, in February 2019.

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