Alpnet purchases Scotland Translation company.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 4, 1996--Alpnet, Inc. (NASDAQ:AILP), the largest dedicated commercial provider of language translation and related services to businesses, today announced it has purchased Executive Services International Translating Company (ESIT) and a series of related companies based in Glasgow, Scotland.

Thomas F. Seal, ALPNET President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "Scotland has been actively pursuing a strategy to encourage international businesses to locate in Scotland. Many companies have established manufacturing and support facilities there, and use these facilities as a launching pad to do business in Europe. In the current international business environment, these companies, as well as already-established Scottish companies, have an increasing need for translation and localization services. ALPNET's purchase of ESIT is the latest step in our ongoing plan to provide high quality translation services to businesses engaged in international trade. The combination of ALPNET's worldwide capability and ESIT's well established reputation with Scottish clients makes us the clear market leader in Scotland, and allows us to provide the worldwide language services these clients need."

Seal continued by saying, "Our philosophy is to provide all kinds of language services to all types of business clients. Some clients are very high tech and progressive, and our recently announced offerings on Europe Online and the Internet are geared toward serving this type of client. Some clients prefer to have local human-oriented sales and support services, and this expansion of our Scottish operation, together with our recently opened offices in Dublin, Amsterdam, Shenzhen (China), and Seoul (Korea) are part of our long term plan to offer local language sales and support in the major international business centers of the world. As a broad capability supplier, ALPNET provides language translation and localization services in any language to attorneys, banks and insurance companies, computer hardware and software companies, home and industrial electronics companies, medical technology companies, automotive and heavy equipment manufacturers, and a broad range of other companies."

ALPNET is a worldwide supplier of translation and related services, with 29 offices in 13 countries throughout Europe, Asia and North America. ALPNET supplies its clients with translation, product localization, international project management, interpretation, language training, and multilingual desktop publishing services. ALPNET can be contacted via the Europe Online International Reference Page, or Internet users can connect using NetScape Navigator 2 on the World Wide Web at http://www.EuropeOnline.Com

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