RWS Full-Year 2019 Revenues Up 16% on Organic Growth, Acquisitions, Forex
RWS delivers a solid set of numbers as organic growth continues, Moravia delivers record revenues, and British pound weakens.
RWS delivers a solid set of numbers as organic growth continues, Moravia delivers record revenues, and British pound weakens.
RWS half-year results boosted by Moravia unit and strong IP business. Margins widen on simplification of operating structure, tight cost control.
Slator’s inaugural comprehensive language industry market report. It examines total market size, the 10 main end-buyer industries, competitive landscape, productivity tech, NMT and much more.
The Slator 2019 Language Service Provider Index features the largest LSPs in a Leaders Index and the midfield in a Challengers Index.
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), launched in July 2018 to track how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, slipped below the baseline for the first time in February 2019.
Features 23 buyer profiles along industry verticals including buyer name, translation volume and / or spend (where available), technology used, sourcing approach, other key insights.
In its first acquisition after the transformative Moravia deal, RWS buys Canadian legal and finance boutique language service provider Alpha Translations for USD 6m.
The industry was abuzz with leadership changes. Two language industry CEOs stepped down after more than two decades at the helm, and a number of large companies announced key management adjustments. This was the year in language industry hires.
RWS nearly doubled in size in its financial year 2018 boosted by Moravia and a solid organic performance across its five divisions. Further selective acquisitions in the cards for 2019.
Through five case studies and nearly 30 commentaries from the buy (enterprise, government, and more)- and sell-side (LSPs), this report shines a light on the sentiment of industry practitioners towards current-state NMT technology.
Shopify’s Content and Localization Manager, Giulia Greco, shares how the multi-channel ecommerce company will have localized six million words by the time 2018 ends, and why translation was the easy part.
The readers have spoken on topics ranging from governments supporting linguist training and education, post-editing machine translation, current demand for Asian languages, and the 2019 outlook
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), launched in August 2018 to track how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, dipped slightly to 100.85 in November 2018 vs 102.69 the previous month.
RWS forecasts GBP 305m (USD 400m) in 2018 sales as “markedly improved second half performance at Moravia” drives growth. RWS Moravia announced partnership with translation productivity technology provider Memsource.
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 in its patent translation division.
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