Mr Khorassani said: “The cultural richness which different languages and backgrounds add to a community needs to be celebrated.

View the full press release here.

Prestige Network’s new legal translation services website showcases various language services available and their possible applications – legal translation, legal interpreter, court translation, solicitors, commercial.

The site is designed with ‘service finder’ and ‘quote enquiry/quote request’ facilities built into the site to make it as user-friendly for the legal profession as possible. It recognises and delivers the legal profession’s customised requirements.

Salome Wagh, Prestige Network’s sales manager, said: “We believe that extensive knowledge and experience – nearly 20 years working alongside the legal profession throughout the UK – teamed with accredited standards of professionalism and quality control put Prestige Network’s language services to the legal profession in a league of their own.”

More details about Prestige Network’s legal service is on www.legaltranslationservices.co.uk

Pictured is Shawn Khorassani, Business Development and Strategy Director, Prestige Network.

Earlier this year, Prestige Network celebrated financial success with the announcement that our turnover had soared 65% in the previous 12 months to a phenomenal £3 million. As Business Development Director, I’ve always got an eye on new opportunities though. In part 1 of ‘my vision for success during a recession’, I looked at what has made Prestige Network a success. Now, in part 2, I look to the future.

There is an increasing tendency for public sector organisations to go out to tender for language services – particularly the larger ones – which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, it’s the procurement processes’ apparent reliance on cost which is causing the most grief within the language services industry.

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• achieved phenomenal financial growth in the last financial year (2008/2009) – its turnover grew by 65%.

• received an award for its Business Management Team in the RBS Management Team Award 2009, part of the Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards.

• was nominated for the West Berkshire Enterprise Award 2009 under the category ‘Job Creation’.

• was recognised in the highly sought-after Coutts Prize for Family Business earlier this year (2009) for the contribution its family business makes to the economy and society.

• made history in October 2009 by providing two British Sign Language/English interpreters (BSL) for a series of UK Youth Parliament debates in the House of Commons, the first time that BSL/English interpreters had ever been used there.

• became one of the first language services companies in UK to be awarded the new ISO standard certificate – the nationally recognised accreditation ISO 9001:2008 for its comprehensive Quality Control Management System.

• expanded into the office next door in Thatcham Business Village, to accommodate more staff. It doubled the square footage of office space to cope with current growth and ensure capacity for future growth.

Read the full details on our Translation Services News Section.

Meryem Munro, Operations Manager (left), and Shohreh Fleming, Chief Executive Officer

The RBS Business Management Team Award were part of this year’s Thames Valley Business Magazine Awards presented at a gala dinner on 19 November at the Royal Berkshire Conference Centre at the Madejski Stadium Complex, Reading.

Find out more about Prestige’s success at the Awards.

Shawn Khorassani, Business Development and Strategy Director of family business language services company Prestige Network, shares his thoughts on succeeding during the recession in the latest Language and Translation Services Article on the Prestige Network website.

“Earlier this year, we celebrated financial success with the announcement that our turnover had soared 65% in the previous 12 months to a phenomenal £3 million. This spurred us on to think hard about the reasons for our success.” More >>>

The objective of the event was to encourage women who may have thought of starting up in business but haven’t yet taken the next steps, as well as to help women who have already started a business and are in the first 12 months of trading, to sustain and grow their business.

The ‘She Means Business!’ seminar was part of a regional What’s Stopping You event in Slough, Berkshire. It was staged by Business Link Berkshire, with funding from the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA).

Shohreh said: “It was a very enjoyable day – in fact, I loved doing it because I was talking about something I have a passion for. It was very flattering to be asked to be a panellist. I was asked to speak on how I started my own business providing translation services, the hurdles I overcame and any help I sought along the way.”

Shohreh added: It’s a subject I could talk about from my heart. The only problem was working out how to fit 18 years of a successful business into an eight-minute presentation!

Games, music, food and drinks were enjoyed by all.

Having a nice sunny day helped too.

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