Business translation services experts since 1990

> 30,000 business translation services to date

> 50 million+ source words translated professionally and cost-effectively

So why is business translation so key to export success?

Simple: because for non-English readers, their first impression of your company IS your business translation.

Using professional business translation services give you an edge – because your competitors don’t bother, or get the cheapest they can. That’s a shame because accurate expert translation is key to having your product or service accepted.

With our business translation services certified to BS EN ISO 17100, our 30+ years’ experience and our expert team, we ensure that our services are to the same high standard you demand of your business.

“Business translation feedback … has been excellent.”
– H J Heinz

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Did you know that business translation services are one of the oldest professions?

Negotiating trade – or wars – put business translation on the front line, where “customer complaints” came with sharp edges!

Business translation services for your business.

Business translation works better when the translator understands your business. We know that every business is unique, and so too is every business translation – which is why understanding of your sector is so important. We have over 30 years’ real-world experience in logistics, engineering, agrifood, retail and much more, giving our in-house team exceptional expertise.

We hand-pick the optimal professional and mother-tongue translator for YOUR stuff from our trusted global pool; then we double review it (INCLUDED in the price – NOT a paid-for extra) and diligently quality-assure to be certain that we deliver the highest-quality business translation services in over 100 languages.

Business translation services aren’t all the same

If you just need an idea of what something says, like many emails or webpages, a surprising amount can actually be left to something like Google or Bing Translate. Most browsers offer machine translation of content into your language that’s “good enough”; your brain unconsciously fills-in or fixes missing or silly bits and, much of the time, gives you what you need. One word of caution – don’t use Google or Bing translate for confidential content as it will probably be retained there indefinitely.

But translating OUT of your language, with key content that must convince – whether that’s training in-country, the perfect sales brochure, brilliant marketing, safety videos, technical manuals, or company blogs and social media – then using professional business translation services is a must.

Choosing the right business translation services assures you of experienced well-qualified mother-tongue translators and reviewers hand-picked for knowledge of your sector, and backed-up by great project management and thorough research.

Always look for:

  • 100% professionally-qualified mother-tongue translators
  • translation review (and NOT review offered as an extra-cost service – it should be automatic!)
  • the technical expertise your project needs
  • confidentiality – never just assume your stuff will be kept confidential – all too often, it isn’t!
  • experience – translation agencies come and go like fashion. Instead, we’ve been in business over 30 years!
  • rigorous quality standards – we’re accredited to ISO 17100.

Specialist business translation services

Like every professional, business translation services specialise so make sure you choose one familiar with your sector. Ours include agrifood, insurance, most engineering, environment, health & safety, petconomy, horeca (hotels/restaurants/café), travel and tourism, logistics, and legal, among many others. Tradeshows are also a speciality, helping to guarantee your new product launch makes the very best impression it can. At the really specialist end we also handle GUI and HMI translation, where understanding the system being controlled is key.

We can optionally offer AI translation or machine translation – both fully-reviewed and revised – where we feel it appropriate for the content and language. Finally, unlike most providers we also translate handwritten texts.

The many benefits that professional business translation services bring are apparent in our case studies.

We also get great feedback from our clients – you can see some on Google here.

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Business translation isn’t new…

Business translation services aren't new!

This is the Rosetta Stone, in the British Museum – their page is here.

It’s an early (c.200 BC) example of business translation. It’s actually an official message – a decree, about King Ptolemy V.

Why’s it here? Well, the message was in the Hieroglyphics language, but the Stone also carried a translation in the Demotic and the Ancient Greek languages.

And THAT’s important because when it was found, we couldn’t read hieroglyphics. But we COULD read Ancient Greek – so from the Stone, we learned to translate hieroglyphics. Cool or what?

Get better translation, for free!

Did you know there’s a lot you can do yourself to help ensure you get the best translation? AND often save yourself cost and time? No? That’s why we’re happy to share with you our advice, in our (free!) Really Helpful Friendly Guide to Translation (PDF) full of useful tips and advice.

As well as our translation services, we provide professional business interpreting (including remote) plus multilingual copywriting, foreign language typesetting and voiceover or subtitling services.

Why us?

Unless you know the language yourself, you have to trust your provider – one reason our clients tell us we’re “great to work with”. Here’s just some reasons they trust us:

  • we review the source for terminology to pre-empt queries and delays (most providers don’t)
  • we carefully brief our translators, with advice and reference sources (very few providers do this)
  • we prepare and maintain glossaries (most don’t do this either)
  • we support our translators with terminology, advice, and queries (or this)
  • our unique database helps us find the best translator for you (no other provider has this!)
  • our analysis and CAT* tools improve quality and consistency and can also give you savings
  • all of our translation is reviewed twice, and that’s INCLUDED in the price. Many providers charge extra for even ONE review!
  • we format your translation properly so it’s immediately usable (most providers can’t or won’t do this)
  • our project management assures you of on-time delivery

And by sharing our knowledge and our experiences, we get better every day.
* CAT = Computer Assisted Translation (important – absolutely NOT machine or Google translation!) See our FAQs for more.

Full Corporate Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, we’re also an accredited Member of the Association of Translation Companies, and are ISO 17100 and ISO 18841 certified. You’re in safe hands.

For a better language solution for your needs, drop us a few details (in total confidence of course) and we’ll get straight back to you. Or, just give our helpful team a call on UK Freefone 0800 783 4678 (Intnl 0044 1772 558858).