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CLS Communication is a language translation, editing and writing services company based in Switzerland.〔("CLS Communication AG: Private Company Information" ) ''BusinessWeek''.〕 It has 19 offices on three continents, and serves the financial services, life sciences, telecommunications and legal industries.〔(Profile: CLS Communication ) "Translation Company – finance, life science, pharmaceuticals, investment banking, securities, hedge funds, investment funds, equity market, bond market, investment research, investment banking, private banking, wealth management, financial planning, accounting, IFRS, contracts, litigation, swiss". Proz.com.〕〔(Across und CLS Communication kooperieren ). Across.net.〕 The company employs approximately 250 in-house translators and writers and has a network of 2,400 external partners. According to its website, as of 2011 CLS Communication has more than 900 clients.〔(Home – TAUS – Enabling better translation ). Translationautomation.com.〕 == History == CLS Communication was created in 1997 as a spin-off from Swiss Bank Corporation (now UBS) and Zurich Financial Services. In 2002, the company in-sourced the translation teams of Swisscom and Sunrise, Switzerland's two leading telecommunications companies, and the translation unit of the Raiffeisen banking group in Switzerland, setting up offices in London and New York. it acquired London-based Richard Gray Financial Translations (RGFT) in 2004, and added offices in Paris and Madrid.〔http://cls-communication.com/sites/default/files/CLS_in_UNE_May2010.pdf〕 Offices in Copenhagen, Frankfurt Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing were added. The firm also took over the language services teams of Swiss Re, Lombard Odier, and Danske Bank. In 2003, CLS became fully independent through a management buyout. In 2009 it gained a new majority shareholder, the Swiss-based private equity fund Zurmont Madison, through a capital increase and a partial buyout of existing shareholders.〔(Tagesüberblick – Wirtschaft ). handelszeitung.ch (13 July 2009).〕 The firm then acquired the Canadian translation firm Lexi-tech International (formerly owned by J.D. Irving), and the Danish Scandinavian Translators. In January 2013, the firm acquired technical documentation translation specialist, 4-Text GmbH, a company based in Berlin, Germany employing over 60 permanent staff and 200 freelance translators.〔(Multilingual.com: CLS Communication acquires 4-Text GmbH )〕 According to the report "The Language Services Market: 2013" by Donald A. DePalma and Vijayalaxmi Hegde, published by Common Sense Advisory, CLS Communication is the 11th largest global language service provider.〔http://www.commonsenseadvisory.com/AbstractView.aspx?ArticleID=5505〕 Doris Albisser led CLS Communication as Group CEO for 16 years until August 2013, when she handed over operational management to her Group CFO and long-time deputy, Matthias Trümpy,〔http://www.cls-communication.com/en/about-cls/history〕 and assumed the Vice-Chairmanship of the Board of Directors. Under Doris Albisser’s leadership, the company grew from an internal bank translation unit into one of the top ten global language service providers. The company now, has over 600 internal staff and a network of some 5,000 freelancers worldwide. In January 2015, CLS Communication was acquired by Lionbridge Technologies, Inc., a global translation company based in Waltham, Massachusetts.〔(PRNewswire.com: Lionbridge Completes Acquisition of CLS Communication, Jan. 8, 2015 )〕 In July 2015, Matthias Trümpy handed over the CEO position to Tom Spel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CLS Communication」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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