Posts Tagged ‘language services’

Family business turnover soars 65%

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Despite worldwide economic gloom and doom Thatcham-based family business language services company Prestige Network is celebrating financial success with the announcement that its turnover has soared 65% in the last 12 months.

Shohreh Fleming, Chief Executive Officer, and Shawn Khorassani, Business Development Director

Shohreh Fleming, Chief Executive Officer, and Shawn Khorassani, Business Development Director

Prestige Network caters for language and communications needs in the private andpublic sector (including the NHS, local government departments, charities, the police and other public organisations).

The company – run by brother and sister Shohreh Fleming and Shawn Khorassani, along with Shohreh’s husband Anthony – has seen its turnover to the end of the last financial year soar to a phenomenal £3 million.

They now employ 25 staff and 5,000 specialist language freelancers based all over the UK, who speak and translate more than 400 languages.

The trio feel optimistic about their future and are confident that they can carry on growing, despite the recession. Shohreh said: “Our staff are invaluable to us, so we ensure it’s a happy place to work. It’s a great pleasure to ensure employment during difficult economic times.”

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Professional and Friendly Interpreting Services – National Reach; Local Focus!

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Introduction

Prestige Network is one of the best and one of the most professional interpreting services provider available.  Prestige Network is one of the UK’s leading in translation and interpreting services.

Route To

Translation is your route to success.  Prestige Network works with you, choosing the right words, native phrases and symbolism correctly with attention to detail.

Legal Translation

One of the most important interpreting service offered by Prestige Network is legal translation services. If a legal document is translated incorrectly, there could be dire consequences for all involved. If you need any language translated then we can help you.

The types of Legal Translation Services offered by Prestige Network is court transcripts, legal contracts, employment contracts and title deeds. Prestige Network will always have a specialist to suit your area of business and they will be able to assist you.

Audio & Video Transcription

Prestige Network also offer Medical translation services. People like Cardiologists, anaesthesiologists, dentists, doctors, surgeons, chiropractors and many other professionals may require documents for a patient transfer to be translated.

Foreign Languages On The Internet and Websites

At Prestige Network, we appreciate that over one hundred million people who use the Internet do not speak English as a first language. The most intelligent thing you can do is have multiple instances of the same website, translated into the different languages in the international pool.

Website Interpreting Services

When it comes to marketing and creative translation, everyone at Prestige Network understands there is no way words, metaphors or symbolism are going to be translated directly. Say you own a website that is marketing products to an international client base. Your site is ranked number one on every search engine in the world, and the orders are still not coming through. This is why we have a developed website interpreting servicesteam dedicated to translating every word on your site fluently and correctly.

You now don’t need to spend anymore time trying to translate your site, All you need to do is send us the raw source, and we will return the translated media professionally and quickly

Various Formats

Prestige Network can use almost any format – CD, DVD, VHS, tape, Mp3, WAV and many more.  We can provide the most highly skilled, professionally adept and courteous medical translators that are always accurate.

Ensuring Your Translation Is Accurate

Whether you need a technical instruction manual, medical document or building plans, Prestige Network has a specialist in your trade that understands the nuances and industrial terminology needed to ensure your translation is completely correct.  Prestige Network offer an inexpensive and enjoyable business experience.

The Translation Process and Technical Translation Services

Whether you need healthcare, engineering, architectural, or any other specialized or technical translation and interpreting services, your results need to be perfect, first time, every time.  This is followed by the translation process ensuring a clear and understandable paraphrasing.

The Best and Most Efficiant Language Company

With our expertise in multilingual translation, telephone and face to face interpreting, and niche market experience, you will find us the best and most efficient language translation company around.  So whether you are a paralegal or a Judge you will find the interpreting services offered by us, an invaluable business tool.

Interpreting services are provided all across the UK and overseas.

Example Of Failed Translation

An example of failed marketing copy that meant no harm was Kentucky Fried Chicken’s campaign that launched the fast food chain in China.  “Eat your fingers off” did not seem like a good slogan or payoff line. With us, there is no chance this will ever happen. If we think there is the slightest chance your copy will not work, we will tell you, and together we can come up with a solution.

Privacy

Remember too that our service is guaranteed along with the privacy of your information.  We know you work for your brands, choosing your customers, products and strategies correctly and with exactitude. All documents, tapes, videos and anything else will be treated under our customer privacy agreement; we pride ourselves in being trustworthy – one of our pillars of success.

Confidentiality Procedures

As with the doctor-patient privacy agreement, we enter into a doctor-translator-patient agreement wherein all information translated, and indeed disclosed in the process, is kept under our strict privacy and confidentiality procedures.

Prestige Networks Interpreting Service

An Example of why you would need interpreting services is for certain things such as Prestige Network understands that medicine is a highly specialised field of industry with many unique terms that cannot be translated literally. Prestige Network’s interpreting services are what you need.

Services You Can Rely On

Prestige Network interpreting services are services you can rely on. This is why we try to include you in our dedicated translation process, in order to understand your brand and better further your marketing strategies.

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Call 01635 292 789 or email salesuk@prestigenetwork.com

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Why Human Translation Is Important In the Modern Economy

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Providing A Boon To The Global Economy

The presence of translation service providers is a boost to the global economy; giving voice to ideas, plans and proposals the world over providing a much needed platform for far-reaching and meaningful communications with the rest of the planet. Aiming to create a bridge upon which ideas and communications can cross without obstruction, to pave the way for free, open and creative communications without boundaries or obstacles.

The Pace Of Economic Migration In The Global Economy

The pace of economic migration in the global economy is quickening and the voice of the world is becoming more cosmopolitan. As businesses, corporations and government bodies expand, the requirement for them to communicate with their evolving populous in a meaningful way becomes all the more pertinent, not to mention challenging and exciting. If a country is to prosper it needs to engage with its population. Where a system for dialogue exists to serve a multi-cultural society, there will also exist a harmony of expression.

Internet Growth

The birth of the internet has made a seemingly endless stream of information available to anyone who has access to a computer with a web connection. The internet is also vital for business. It creates a new arena where companies are able to showcase their particular products and services in fresh and innovative ways to new and diverse audiences.

Using The Web To Widen The Appeal

From launching an ad campaign in Polish to translating an e-mail from a client in Moscow; the challenge of utilising the internet to widen the appeal of your company must be met, if growth and success are to form any part of an organisations agenda.

Aims

The aim of any company or corporation is to offer the same high quality product or service to its expanding customer base. If that base consists largely of individuals from many different countries, then a solution needs to be found. For example, a company sees a gap in a potential market for a new or existing product; the problem presented to them is simple; extending the message that their company wishes to express in a culturally sensitive and appropriate manner.

The Advantages

The advantages of language services on the broader global economy are perhaps not immediately apparent. But if a company, whether large or small, is to get involved with it’s public in a meaningful way it needs to approach them in a manner that is conducive to them, not to marginalise them and therein reduce their presence in the world economy.
Companies express their cultural sensitivity by providing their diversifying customer base with materials tailored to suit their own languages. Indeed, for a company not to offer this kind of information would be short-sighted and not make good business sense.

The Need For Translators

It would not simply be enough to translate an ad campaign into Albanian or Chechen without an understanding of the kind of world your message is going to be heard in. Enter the translation services provider. With the advent of the global economy the role of the translator is an almost indispensable one. The need for businesses to communicate with their client base means that there will always be a requirement for a translator. This means a lot of work for professional language services: a company setting up a South-East Asian headquarters would need to overhaul the bulk of its commercial as well as training materials without losing any of its corporate timbre. Such an undertaking is costly and important to execute correctly from beginning to end.

The Role Of A Translation Service Provider

So, the role of a translation services provider is not simply to transpose a set of texts or materials from one language to the next, but also to engage with the culture who speaks that language. In partnership with the business or government body, this creates an invaluable link to its population in order that it may speak openly and clearly to all.

Just Translating Is Not Sufficient

Simply translating material would not be sufficient; a translator would need to know what kind of message the company is anxious to convey to their new client base and set the tone for the promotion or corporate identity. Certain symbols or ideas that are seen as the norm to one country may be highly offensive to another. In this manner, cultural sensitivity is extremely important.

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