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Demand Prompts London Skrivanek Office

Skrivanek’s London office doors are open, expanding our on-site language services into a region of high growth and demand.

“British business has always thrived on export and although the UK translation market is highly competitive we believe we have the expertise and experience to meet the needs of companies operating in a global market,” says Joe Atkinson, UK Key Account Manager for Skrivanek, who will head up the London office. “We believe it will be a great benefit to our UK clients both existing and new to have a local point of contact for all their language translation requirements.”

Best known for being the market leader in Central and East European languages, Skrivanek provides all major world languages to its clients around the world.

“We are proud of our roots in Central Europe and still operate an unparalleled branch structure across the region with all the benefits that brings,” says Pavel Skrivanek, founder and CEO of Skrivanek Group. “These days, however, we have a truly global reach with offices in Berlin, New York, Moscow and several other cities worldwide.”

Joe Atkinson reports that hundreds of clients across the UK have discussed their translation needs with him in his role as Key Account Manager. From small firms to global corporations, they want to be able to explain their needs to and receive feedback from a provider who speaks their language. 

Skrivanek has prepared thoroughly for a move designed to cement relationships with UK client links developed over 20 years, while also forging new ones through our competitive pricing and outstanding customer service.

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Skrivanek has been certified for information security management according to ISO 27001. 

Skrivanek clients worldwide now have added assurance that their data will be handled with the utmost care and its security will be guaranteed. We are aware of the risks that we carry as a company working with information every day and intend to build on our existing ability to effectively protect not only our own information and assets, but also those of our business partners and employees, in accordance with the law and our security regulations. 

SKRIVANEK announces its presence at the Localization World Conference, Reaching the Mobile World. This year’s venue: the impressive French convention center, le Palais des Congrès de Paris. 

As a leading localization innovator Skrivanek will be present at Reaching the Mobile World:
·         to hear your views and answer your questions
·         to share our expertise and understanding with the global localization community
·         to ensure that we’re up-to-date on the hottest topics, trends and technologies

Contact us to schedule a meeting at the conference to discuss your specific localization needs.For more information about the Reaching the Mobile World: www.localizationworld.com

We hope to see you in Paris June 4-6 for a three-day conversation about one of the most important and dynamic issues in international business today.

Get to know our high-end quality and competitive prices.

If you order a translation from us now as a new client,
or a new language combination as an existing client, 
and include the keyword „iPad“ in your order,
you will automatically participate in our summer drawing.

Main prize: an iPad ! 

Conditions:

• By entering the prize drawing, participants accept the following conditions.
• You can participate if you are
  • o    either a new client of Skrivanek s.r.o., placing an order between 1.6.2012 and 15.9.2012 at Skrivanek s.r.o. with a minimum order value of 400 € / 500 $ excl. VAT and mention in your order the keyword „iPad“.
  • or an existing client of Skrivanek s.r.o., placing an order for a language combination that you have not so far ordered, placing such an order between 1.6.2012 and 15.9.2012 at Skrivanek s.r.o. with a minimum order value of 400 € / 500 $ excl. VAT and mention in your order the keyword „iPad“.
• Each new client fullfilling the above conditions will get one entry in the draw.
• The draw will take place on September 19th 2012.
• The winner will be notified in writing and  - if he has no objection – his name will be published on our website.
• The design, color and type will be selected by Skrivanek s.r.o. and does not necessarily correspond to the symbolic image.
• There is no cash equivalent or alternative prize.
• No legal proceedings will be entered into. Czech law is applicable.

*The T-Index Study www.translated.net/en/languages-that-matter was done by Translated.

Skrivanek Group has been awarded ISO 14001 certification for Environmental Management in recognition of its high standard of environmental best practice.

The EN ISO 14001:2004 standard helps us minimize how our operations  and translation processes negatively affect the environment and comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmentally oriented requirements, and continually improve in the above.

This globally recognised certification – as yet quite rare in the translation business - sets conditions regarding aspects of environmental management. Certification for ISO 14001 means that Skrivanek correctly disposes of waste, practices smart consumption of energy and materials, promotes energy conservation and recycling and thereby reduces the environmental impact of its work. Skrivanek’s aim is to raise this awareness amongst its employees and to enable them to carry out their work with the same consideration.

This voluntary achievement demonstrates Skrivanek’s dedication to set and achieve high environmental, health and safety goals. All Skrivanek’s clients can be confident that the organisation not only complies with important environmental policies and best practices, but also thanks to documented processes and procedures strives to achieve a constant improvement in performance.

Skrivanek for research and education

On 13th of April a Fiat Scodo financed by local companies, was handed over ceremoniously to the Humboldt University of Berlin.

As part of a sponsorship campaign local companies support the university financially and appear as their company logos on the minibus. As an international translation agency, which involves constantly new technologies in their work processes, it's a matter of great concern to promote research. Skrivanek was very pleased about the possibility to take part in the handover. Sales Consultant of Skrivanek, Michal Rossa, was there and had the possibility to gain an impression of the minibus. Despite the rain, it was a very nice event and the minibus will surely prove itself as useful when it comes to expeditions into the open.

“Run the Hervis Prague Half Marathon and discover the undiscovered Prague! Skip the souvenir shops and run through the different neighbourhoods alongside the Vltava River. The race takes place on a Saturday and starts and finishes in the City's historical centre, right next to the famous Jewish Quarter.”

And what does the half-marathon in April have in common with Skrivanek?

There are two runners signed up from among our employees who will not only try to finish, but also push themselves beyond their own expectations and support a good cause. The Manager of Skrivanek Baltics and Slovenia Aiga Veckalne from Riga and Global Production Manager Michal Küfhaber from Brno will represent our company. Both of these colleagues are running not only for pleasure but also to support charity projects. Our athletes, as well as the whole event, has encouraged other Skrivanek colleagues who are planning to come from Latvia, Bulgaria, Germany, and of course many places in the Czech Republic to support the marathon team.

We are going to support the Goodwill Foundation of Olga Havel in conjunction with its educational programs for disabled people with our enthusiasm, sport performances and understanding. We will support the Foundation through our Skrivanek runners financially and with other contributions. More information on the promotion of the project will be gradually published on our website and facebook profile. Join our runners and support our team too! Contact us at skrivanek@skrivanek.cz.


See our runners here:

Aiga

Michal

We are pleased and honoured that we have once again met the demanding strict quality criteria, and we will continue to strive to meet the stringent certification requirements in the daily operation of both internationally recognized standards in order to defend our certification in the coming years.

Skrivanek once again participated at the international Localization World Conference, this time in the beautiful American city of Seattle. This fall, the conference attracted hundreds of participants from all continents who attended many presentations and the localization exhibition and mainly came to discuss the major theme of the conference related to new trends: "Know-how for Global Success."

Skrivanek again had the opportunity to gain new knowledge and share our valuable experiences with other major companies in the market of language services. The conference offers a wonderful opportunity for networking and discussions
with experts from around the world.

Skrivanek also participated in the raffle this year, to which we dedicated a gift.

All the conference's participants were given the chance to take part in a quiz connected with the conference's theme of local know-how for global success, and all entrants were automatically entered in the Skrivanek prize draw and had a chance of winning a set of quality books written by the most famous, world-renowned and widely respected authors in English translation.

If you want to take the quiz and try to win the prize, simply fill it in here in English.

GO TO THE QUIZ

We look forward to your replies!

This year's tekom conference, held from 3rd till 5th of November, is going to focus on the Asian continent. Thus the approx. 200 speeches, workshops, conversation and discussion forums will mainly deal with the question of technological communication in countries such as Japan, Korea and China.

Skrivanek, as a globally operating translation agency, can provide a broad experience on the Asian market. We are therefore looking forward to sharing and exchanging this experience and our knowledge with visitors and members of the tekom conference. We welcome you to visit our stand for information about the characteristics concerning translations and localization in or from Asian languages.

You can find us in Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden, hall 3, stand 331.
We are looking forward to seeing you there!

As part of our continuing efforts to share in the shaping of new trends in the translation and localization industry we are taking part in the 2010 Localization World Conference in Seattle. We would like to take this opportunity to invite your company to visit our booth at this Localization World at the World Trade Center in Seattle, WA, Oct. 6-8, 2010.

All the conference's participants will be given the chance to take part in a quiz connected with the conference's theme Local know-how Global success, all entrants will be automatically entered in our prize draw and will a chance of winning a set of quality hardcover books written by the most famous, world-renowned and widely respected authors in English translation.
Can't make it to Seattle? Not to worry, to make up for it, we would like to offer you a special discount on all the services we provide! Make sure of a 15% discount on your first order now! Simply complete the quiz online and send it to us.

GO TO THE QUIZ

We look forward to receiving your answers!

International Translation Day has been celebrated all over the world on September 30th since 1953. This date was chosen to pay tribute to St. Jerome, the saint and especially patron of translators and interpreters.

St. Jerome died on September 30th in the year 419 in Bethlehem, but he had already built the cornerstone for the translation profession by aiming to overcome language barriers amongst various cultures; he translated the Holy Bible and promoted language teaching.

Skrivanek is also overcoming language barriers and is ready to crack every translation nut for you!

Happy International Translation Day to all!

Since the European Year of Languages in 2001, the 26th of September has seen the European Day of languages celebrated throughout Europe. Proclaimed by the European Council in Strasbourg, this year's holiday marks the tenth annual celebration.

There are more than 200 indigenous European languages which have to be classified and protected. This is the first aim of the European Day of Languages. Moreover, the development of multilingualism is also of high importance. The European Council wants Europeans to speak more languages and thus improve their chances on the labor market. By this, the Council already provides for the personal gain of Europeans who learn new languages. However, many Europeans think the majority of the world's population still only speaks one language when at least half of them have a good command of two or even more languages. On the European Day of languages numerous events are organized across 45 European countries to motivate both the young and old to learn a foreign language.

By the way, the European languages spoken most in their mother tongue are Russian, German, English, French and Italian – in that order. If you don't master all of these languages it's no bother at all. Skrivanek will help you translate documents of different subject areas into many European and non-European languages on demand –  not only once a year.

SKRIVANEK confirms its ever-expanding global role by announcing that for the 4th year in the row it places on the list of the largest translation agencies worldwide. Skrivanek Skrivanek now is ranked 20th in an independent study of the top language service providers in the world according to a report released by the American research and consulting company Common Sense Advisory. With its 50 offices worldwide, Skrivanek ranks an even more impressive 3rd place in terms of number of branch offices.

Based on a survey conducted on 889 LSPs, the overall rate of growth from 2008 to 2009 was significantly slower than in previous years for all language providers - an average of just 8.21%. Yet, Common Sense Advisory calculates that the market for outsourced language services will be worth an impressive US$26.327 billion in 2010.

Based on the 2009 fiscal year, the list explains the performance of the top 35 language companies and provides in-depth research of the language industry leaders.
Since 2006, Skrivanek has regularly placed on the list of top translation agencies and is very proud that the company continues to set the pace for the future of global LSPs. Skrivanek is determined to carry on with its endeavor to provide comprehensive top-quality services in the field of global language solutions. The complete list and report can be found on the Common Sense Advisory website at:
http://www.commonsenseadvisory.com/

As part of its role as a leading localization innovator, Skrivanek would like to take this unique opportunity in Berlin to share its expertise and understanding with its industry partners and clients; Skrivanek strives to pass its in-depth knowledge to the benefit of its customers.

We hope to see you at Localization World in Berlin, June 7 - 9 to answer your questions and discuss your input and needs.

Contact us to schedule a meeting at the conference.

More information about the conference: www.localizationworld.com.

We hope to see you at GALA 2010 in Prague, May 10-12 to discuss your global language requirements!

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