The Post-Deal Lives of Over 100 LSP Owners Who Sold Their Business
Slator tracked over 70 language industry M&A transactions and reviewed the next steps founders took after selling their business. Continue reading
Tag: LUZ
What RWS Told Investors About How Well Post-Editing Works in Patent Translation
Language service provider RWS tells investors at capital markets event about how it is integrating Moravia and informs about the results of a pilot project to deploy MT post-editing in production... Continue reading
Moravia Drives RWS Revenue Growth But Not Margin Expansion
In the first half of its 2018 financial year, RWS posts revenues of GBP 139.6m and a pre-tax profit of GBP 28.6m. While acquisitions drive revenue growth, the core patent translation business... Continue reading
Slator’s Most Popular Language Industry Stories of 2017
Massive privacy breach at Translate.com, senior managers leaving TransPerfect in droves, RWS buying Moravia, Facebook launching neural machine translation, Pearl Linguistic going bust, and more... Continue reading
Don’t Quibble, M&A is About Establishing Trust
At SlatorCon Zurich 2017, Dr Christoph Bieri, Managing Partner of the M&A firm that advised LUZ on its sale to RWS, shared his experience on choosing buyers, determining valuation and managing... Continue reading
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Inside RWS’ Full-Year 2017 Results
In 2018, Moravia will contribute half of RWS Group’s revenues. The China patent business continues to grow as ZTE and Huawei emerge as the world’s busiest patent filers. And the bet on life... Continue reading
RWS Posts Record Revenues and Earnings
RWS registered its best ever revenue and profits figures in FY 2017 and declared its 14th consecutive dividend increase. Recent acquisitions in Life Sciences contribute significantly to the... Continue reading
Strong Results Lift RWS Shares to All-Time High
RWS reports 33.6% revenue growth and projects pre-tax profits “ahead of market expectations” for its financial year ending September 30, 2017. Market capitalization nears USD 1.3bn on the back of... Continue reading
We Would Never Buy TransPerfect, Says RWS Chairman Andrew Brode
RWS delivers yet another set of strong results as share price hovers near all-time high. Revenues are up 35% and operating profits up 28% in the first six months of the financial year. Chairman... Continue reading
RWS Passes the Billion
Shares in UK language service provider surge on back of trading update. RWS market capitalization breaks through one-billion-US-dollar mark. Continue reading
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Wieners+Wieners Buys Apostroph as the Great Swiss Sale Continues
Another Swiss-based language service provider changes hands as more and more outside competitors move into the high-priced Swiss market. Apostroph CEO Philipp Meier to remain and become... Continue reading
RWS Spends Big on 82.5m Acquisition of LUZ
One of the most attractive pure-play, life sciences players changes hands as RWS bolsters position in fast-growing vertical. Price tag in line with 2015 acquisition of CTi. Continue reading
Who Went Where—The Week in Language Industry Hires
ULG appoints KJI co-founder Strategic Director of Global Operations. Aspena BDM moves to New York and becomes Managing Director. LUZ names a new Account Director. Architekst fills a BDM post. And... Continue reading
Lionbridge and LUZ Choose Partnerships to Tap New Markets
A closer look at two recent partnership announcements. Lionbridge teams up with Transifex to fill a gap in its tech stack, while life science language service provider LUZ goes after TransPerfect... Continue reading
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