Category Archives: business growth
Brazil, Russia, India, China: BRICs in the wall of recovery?
Pic: By Ricardo Stuckert/PR (Agência Brasil [1]) [CC-BY-2.5-br], via Wikimedia Commons Will translation rescue London businesses from the morass of the UK economy? A report today by the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry shows a difficult last few months for London business, but concludes that part of the solution is reaching out globally to [...]
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Chinese Translation a shoe in for Chinese tourists?
An unusual tourist destination for Chinese tourists in the UK is revealed by the Metro today. The Clarks shoe museum, in the small Somerset village of Street, is hoping for coaches full of tour groups. • Jim Dickson is a director of WorldAccent Translation, London
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Translation Helps Business Survive Recession: new article
The last year has been a hard one economically for businesses throughout the English-speaking world. Translation provides part of a business solution to riding out the recession and emerging with a competitive advantage, I argue in a new article on Buzzle.com. • Jim Dickson is a director of WorldAccent Translation, London
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Assembling a Welsh Translation Row
The use and equality of the Welsh language have long inspired passions, and a long-running campaign seems to have reversed its decline. Today, in an apparent partial victory for bilingualism and the equal use of the Welsh language in Wales, the Assembly Commission has backed off plans to scrap the translation of debates from English [...]
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Could French economic happiness be infectious?
The champagne corks weren’t quite popping but the French and German finance ministries were no doubt pleased with themselves last week. The news that both economies have emerged from recession was welcome, leading French economy minister Christine Lagarde to comment “These are obviously very positive numbers, which have surprised us and made us quite happy.” [...]
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Is Arabic translation of credit crunch a spending spree?
I’ve mentioned before that I am a big fan of Charlton Athletic football club and the past few weeks have been a real rollercoaster for us fans. For a while I thought my separate worlds of football and Arabic translation would be brought together as Dubai based Zabeel Investments made an “indicative offer” to buy [...]
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Translating luxury brands into global success