Strategic Merger Creates The Industry's Premier Life Sciences Practice Group
Forbes.com - October 27, 2005
TransPerfect Translations, a world leader in multilingual 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 9001:2008/ISO 13485:2003 certified quality system and patent-pending risk management methodology with the production resources and localization 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 of TransPerfect, said, "Crimson has developed the industry's only quality system, specifically designed for high-risk translation application, that is certified to ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003, as well as endorsed to ISO 14971:2000. This is a perfect complement to our own ISO 9001:2008 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 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 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 over 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, software localization, subtitling/voice-overs, multicultural marketing, document management, and litigation support. With a network of over 4,000 linguists and subject-area specialists, TransPerfect is one of only a handful of translation companies to be ISO 9001:2008 certified. TransPerfect is headquartered in New York; production hubs are located in New York, London, and Hong Kong.
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 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003 certifications and an official endorsement to ISO 14971:2000. Crimson's work has been recognized as MDD 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