RWS Group
| Company type | plc |
|---|---|
| Industry | Patent and commercial translations, localisation, interpreting, patent searches, patent database |
| Founded | 1958 (as M.H. Randall & Partners) |
| Headquarters | Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, U.K. |
Key people | Andrew Brode, Chairman Richard Thompson, CEO |
| Revenue | £356m (2019) |
Number of employees | 2523 (FTE) |
| Parent | RWS Holdings plc |
RWS Group provides intellectual property translation, filing and search services, and technical and commercial translation and localization.
History
The company was created in 1982 from a merger between M.H. Randall & Partners (a specialist translation company) and Woolcott & Co (a specialist patent and technical information searching company).[1] In 2005 it acquired Eclipse Translations, a company formed in December 1996. In 2015 it acquired Corporate Translations Inc. (CTi), a Connecticut-based life sciences translation and linguistic validation provider for a $70 million in cash.[2] Then in 2017, the company acquired LUZ, Inc., a US-based life sciences language services provider for $82.5 million: the company raised £40 million of the consideration by issuing 12.1m ordinary shares with the rest funded by a $26.3 million banking facility from Barclays.[3]
In 2017, RWS purchased Czech-based localization provider Moravia for $320m, more than doubling the size of the group.[4]
Locations
RWS Group headquarters are in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, UK. Its Information Division is based in Tavistock Square, London. The Group has production sites in Germany, Japan and China, and offices in Argentina, Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Ireland, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA.
Subsidiary companies
- Eclipse Translations, based in Alnwick, Northumberland.
- PharmaQuest,[5] based in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
- RWS Group Deutschland GmbH, based in Berlin.[6]
- RWS Group Switzerland LLC, based in Basel, Switzerland.[7]
- inovia, based in New York City, United States.[8]
- Moravia IT s.r.o., based in Brno, Czech Republic. Rebranded to RWS Moravia on October 1st 2018.
- Iconic Translation Machines Ltd, based in Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- Webdunia.com (India) Private Limited, based in Indore, India
Services
The company provides intellectual property support services and high level technical, legal and financial translation services. Following a re-structure in 2019, the business is split into 3 divisions:
RWS IP Services, based at the UK head office in Chalfont St Peter, provides patent search, translation, filing and support services.
RWS Life Sciences, based in East Hartford, US, provides translation and validation services for medical drug trials, regulatory affairs, marketing, e-learning and training.
RWS Moravia, based in Brno, Czech Republic, provides technology-enabled software localization services, and commercial translation and interpreting services.
References
- ^ "About Us: Company History". RWS Group. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ Faes, Florian (2015-11-04). "RWS Doubles Down on Life Sciences and Acquires CTi for $70M". Slator. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ^ "RWS Holdings: Best kept secret". Walbrock Research. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ^ "Completion of the Acquisition of Moravia" (PDF). RWS. 2017-11-03. Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- ^ "PharmaQuest". Corporate Translation Inc. Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ "Historie" [History]. RWS-Group (in German). Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ "Historie" [History]. RWS-Group (in Swiss German). Retrieved 3 April 2017.
- ^ "Locations". inovia. Retrieved 3 April 2017.