Honyaku Center Post Modest Growth of 4% in the First Quarter of FY24
Japan’s largest translation and interpreting provider, Honyaku Center, delivered 4% growth in Q1 FY24, and its core patent translation division outperformed, with 14% growth.
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Japan’s largest translation and interpreting provider, Honyaku Center, delivered 4% growth in Q1 FY24, and its core patent translation division outperformed, with 14% growth.
Japan-listed LSP Honyaku Center reported revenue growth of 5.9% to almost USD 80m in FY2023, as demand for translation and interpreting offset declines in other divisions.
Zoo Digital outperforms competitors again. Keywords Studios’ globalization unit strengthens video game localizer’s position. Appen’s stock continues to plunge.
Translation and interpreting demand at Japan’s largest LSP, Honyaku Center, now approaching pre-Covid figures. Slow recovery of in-person activities continues to impact sales.
Shares in Tokyo-listed Honyaku Center hold steady following modest growth in Q1 of fiscal year ending March 2023. Core translation business stays strong, interpretation starts to recover.
Japan’s largest LSP, Honyaku Center, starts to bounce back from Covid slump ahead of relaxed border controls starting June 1, 2022. Translation demand reported to be “generally firm.”
Japan’s largest LSP, Honyaku Center, posts more than 300% jump in profits for first three quarters of year ending March 2022; expects to close out year with USD 89m in revenues.
While the overall language industry put in an exceptionally strong year, investors in listed LSPs and companies operating LSP units were handed a decidedly mixed bag in 2021.
Honyaku Center, Japan’s largest LSP, continues to post improving numbers. Sales climb in all units but one as the country relaxes Covid measures for business travel and large events.
Japan’s largest LSP, Honyaku Center, reports overall sales increase in Q1 FY21 on back of core Translation business. Online push drives Interpretation; sales up in all but one unit.
Japan’s largest LSP, Honyaku Center, reports 14% revenue drop for 12 months to March 31, 2021; will onboard efficiency measures, upgrade tools to mitigate decline in Translation and Interpretation units.
Sales in Honyaku Center’s core translation business continue to decline, down 9.5% to USD 50m for 9 months to December 2020, but pharma orders up 2.4% to USD 20m. FY 2020 forecast upgraded to USD 91m.
2020 brought extreme pressure on businesses and listed language service providers (LSPs) were no exception. Which LSPs fared better in 2020 and which suffered most amid Covid-19?
Interpreting provider LanguageLine Solutions enjoys “robust growth”; while Japan’s largest LSP, Honyaku, forecasts better-than-expected results for first half.
With earnings season for the first half of 2020 behind us, we take a look at how shares in listed language service providers performed year-to-date 2020.
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