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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.
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.
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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.
Rozetta calls Machine Translation its “cash cow” as business continues to grow; plans to transition to holding company by September 2021 and make conferencing speech translation tool a core product.
RWS buys patent translation agency, Horn & Uchida of Japan, for GBP 2.3 million cash consideration. Brokerage firm Berenberg ups RWS’ price target, sees strategy on track.
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.
As machine translation delivers 39% revenue growth in first 9 months of FY 2021, Japan’s Rozetta outgrows declining human-translation business in favor of MT SaaS.
Japanese machine translation (MT) and language service provider (LSP) Rozetta grew 3.2% to USD 19m in the first half, as MT revenues climbed 46%.
Japan’s largest LSP, Honyaku Center, posted revenues of USD 107m in the 12 months ended March 31, 2020. Core translation business slid 4.6% as company describes outlook extremely uncertain.
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