An exciting time for thebigword

The headquarters of thebigword is in an extra frenzy of activity as we close the books on our last financial year and prepare for guests to arrive from our offices around the world for thebigword Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony.

At the conference we will be sharing with our staff (some in person and others linked by video across the globe) our plans for the next four years, when we aim to take thebigword from the 12th place into the top five in the industry. This will be no mean task but with the launch of our new technology and some exciting strategic plans to support our organic growth we are set for probably the most interesting period of our business.

 This week sees the launch of our new website which by the end of the month will be localised into eight languages.

Localisation has had a huge effect on our business as companies look to communicate with customers in different regions. This is an area of huge growth and opportunity for us.

We’ve found that there is an explosion for the use of videos on websites all around the world as organisations work hard to get their message across to customers in their own language.

Our website now features many videos, a really helpful feature when trying to explain some of the complicated technology and the feedback from clients testing the website has been more than excellent.

To add to the excitement, this year we were awarded a £7million contract in South Africa for one of the world’s largest hotel groups for which we’ll be providing online training for its global workforce in 13 languages.

So we start the New Year with much enthusiasm as we see how language and technology is revolutionising the way companies, governments and organisations communicate with each other.

I would like to thank all our stakeholders including clients, our community of 8,000 linguists who work from 73 countries and of course all our staff for all their wonderful support over the last financial year.

Have a great week,

Larry