Crimson Language Services Joins the TransPerfect Family of Companies; Strategic Merger Creates the Industry's Premier Life Sciences Practice Group.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- TransPerfect Translations, a world leader in multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual adj. 1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary. 2. communication services, today announced that Crimson Language Services has joined its growing family of companies. The merger creates a newly-formed Life Sciences Division that combines Crimson's ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001:2000/ISO 13485:2003 certified See certification. quality system and patent-pending risk management methodology with the production resources and localization Customizing software and documentation for a particular country. It includes the translation of menus and messages into the native spoken language as well as changes in the user interface to accommodate different alphabets and culture. See internationalization and l10n. talent of TransPerfect and its software localization unit, Translations.com. Crimson's Financial Translations unit will be combined with TransPerfect's existing financial practice group - providing enhanced resources for Sarbanes-Oxley compliant financial translations. TRANSPERFECT ACQUIRES IMPORTANT QUALITY SYSTEM & IP ASSETS Included in the merger are important quality system (QS) and intellectual property (IP) assets - specifically designed for high-risk translation applications. Liz Elting, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of TransPerfect, said, "Crimson has developed the industry's only quality system, specifically designed for high-risk translation application, that is certified to ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485:2003, as well as endorsed to ISO 14971:2000. This is a perfect complement to our own ISO 9001:2000 certified quality system, and we are pleased to have joined forces with a team so closely aligned with our own perspectives on both quality and client satisfaction." As part of the arrangement, TransPerfect also stands to gain ownership of the industry's first-ever risk management patent. Based on Crimson's certified quality system, the patent-pending methodology controls translation risk at both the resource and the process level. MERGER STRATEGY PROMOTES RETENTION, GROWTH Phil Shawe, President and CEO of Translations.com, added, "Unlike some M&A activity, which is predicated on cost-cutting via staff reductions, the TransPerfect/Crimson union is focused completely on retention, growth, and utilizing the synergies between the companies to the benefit of our combined client base." "The combination of TransPerfect's Life Sciences Practice Group and Crimson Medical Translations offers clients in the medical device, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries access to greater capacity, an enhanced scope of services, and patented translation risk management," concluded Shawe. CRIMSON FOUNDER JOINS TRANSPERFECT SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM Crimson's Founder and CEO, Marc H. Miller, will join TransPerfect as Division President and Vice President of Quality Systems. Miller, a Harvard alumnus ALUMNUS, civil law. A child which one has nursed; a foster child. Dig. 40, 2, 14. and 13-year veteran entrepreneur of the language industry, stated, "We are extremely excited to be part of the TransPerfect family. This merger provides our clients with a broader suite of services, including access to the world-class software localization talent of Translations.com, another member of the TransPerfect family. Further, our San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Boston production locations match up well with the worldwide footprint of TransPerfect's 30 offices, and will create a powerful combination with the reach to successfully undertake client engagements on a global scale." About TransPerfect TransPerfect is a family of companies including TransPerfect Translations, TransPerfect Staffing, TransPerfect Document Management, TransPerfect Transcriptions, and Translations.com. TransPerfect is one of the world's leading providers of language services. With 30 offices on 3 continents, TransPerfect provides a full array of services in over 100 languages to multinationals worldwide. These services include translation, interpretation, transcription, multilingual typesetting/graphic services, staffing solutions, website globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation , software localization, subtitling/voice-overs, multicultural marketing, document management, and litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. support. With a network of over 4,000 linguists A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies linguistics. Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows more than 2 languages), or a grammarian, but these two uses of the word are distinct. and subject-area specialists, TransPerfect is one of only a handful of translation companies to be ISO 9001:2000 certified. TransPerfect is headquartered in New York; production hubs are located in New York, London, and Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. . About Crimson Language Services Crimson Language Services, founded in 1992, provides "Expertise in Translation for the Medical Technology Industries," as well as other highly-regulated industries. Crimson is the only translation company in the world to hold ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 13485:2003 certifications and an official endorsement to ISO 14971:2000. Crimson's work has been recognized as MDD MDD Major depressive disorder, see there compliant by an EU Notified Body and the firm counts industry leaders such as Stryker, Chiron, Bio-Rad, and Arrow International among its regular clients. About Translations.com Translations.com provides software and website localization, as well as enterprise language solutions, to clients in virtually every major industry. Translations.com's business services are focused on the strategic needs of organizations seeking to communicate and conduct business in international markets. Translations.com has an established global presence on three continents and continues to pioneer new techniques and technologies for the rapid development of multilingual business solutions. For more information, visit the Translations.com web site, www.translations.com, or email the company at info@translations.com. |
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