SDL CEO Adolfo Hernandez told SlatorCon how the recent acquisition of Donnelley Language Solutions is SDL’s transparent play for premium industries such as finance, legal and life sciences and how those verticals are positioned for growth. Continue reading
Paris-headquartered IP Service Provider Questel buys 100% of US-based language service provider MultiLing at around 10-times earnings. Continue reading
Relativity Connector Enables Translation of Legal Documents Across 70 Language Pairs MAIDENHEAD, UK–October 3, 2018 – SDL (LSE: SDL), a global leader in content creation, translation, management and delivery, today announces the general availability of its SDL Multilingual eDiscovery Solution, providing legal professionals… Continue reading
Hot take on SlatorCon San Francisco 2018. A rundown of main themes and speakers from Slator’s one-day flagship event for the language industry including photo gallery. Continue reading
Printing giant Toppan Leefung acquires Capital Markets and Compliance business from competitor Merrill Corporation. Combined translation unit employs 120 in-house translators. Continue reading
Language industry veteran Garry Levitt is appointed to the role of Chief Revenue Officer at UK-headquartered language service provider thebigword. Continue reading
San Francisco startup Boostlingo has secured USD 3.4m in Series A funding to build out its delivery platform for interpretation services including capabilities for both onsite and remote interpreting. Continue reading
Research submissions on neural machine translations ballooned from 91 in the first half of 2017 to 196 in the first half of 2018, although by July 2018 submissions were slowing down. Continue reading
In its last set of results before consolidating Donnelley Language Solutions, SDL posts first half revenues of GBP 143.1m and adjusted EBITA of GBP 12m. CEO Hernandez sees the benefits of transformation finally beginning to make an impact. Continue reading
In an exclusive interview with Slator, SDL CEO Adolfo Hernandez insists they did not need M&A but calls the acquisition of Donnelley Language Solutions a fantastic strategy accelerator. Continue reading
CEO Benjamin du Fraysseix lives up to his reputation as one of the language industry’s busiest dealmakers by buying Belgian rival Telelingua. Combined group revenues to exceed USD 100 million in 2018. Continue reading
Donnelley Financial Solutions (NYSE: DFIN) announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to divest its Language Solutions business to SDL (LSE: SDL.L) for $77.5 million on a cash free, debt free basis with all consideration to be paid in cash. Continue reading
SDL acquires Donnelley Language Solutions for USD 77.5m as language industry consolidation accelerates in 2018. SDL pays 13.3 times EBITDA. Donnelley LS management expected to stay. Deal shifts SDL decidedly towards services business. Continue reading
As markets are trending sideways in 2018, a handful of language services and technology providers in media localization and language data managed to outperform the markets. Continue reading
The language industry is huge, worth around USD 40bn per year. Yet, unlike other industries of this size, there is no one single provider generating a billion US-Dollars in revenue. Here’s how it could be done. Continue reading
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