UK exporters benefit from booming business
posted Mon, 2011-07-04 17:45 by
Over a third of UK exporters have experienced ’significant’ growth since branching out overseas.
The figures come as part of a number of reports by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) into how British SMEs trade abroad and are a great boost, especially in the face of recent statistics suggesting that Britain is ailing as an exporting nation.
tags: eCommerce, Foreign Language Internet, International Trade
How can the EU Commission get businesses to trade internationally?
posted Wed, 2011-06-08 14:27 by
Only 8.8% of EU citizens are buying online across EU borders, according to the folk at the EU Commission’s Digital Agenda Strategy (DAS). Not the best news for them, considering the figure they’re aiming for by 2015 is an ambitious 20%.
In fact, the news is so worrying, it’s prompted action from the EU Commission to tackle what it has described as ‘insufficient progress’.
tags: eCommerce, Foreign Language Internet, International Trade
Asos.com fashions a path to foreign language success
posted Mon, 2011-06-06 13:53 by
Online fashion giant Asos.com has reported a massive rise in profit and has attributed its success to branching out on the foreign language internet.
tags: eCommerce, Foreign Language Internet, International Trade
The UK export market — doom and gloom or a sunny future?
posted Mon, 2011-05-16 16:44 by
It seems like everyone’s talking about UK exports this month.
We’ve got the FT pointing out the fact that the UK joined the exporting game a little too late to ride out the recession.
tags: eCommerce, Export, Foreign Language Internet, International Trade, UK economy
European Commission Report Proves the Need for a Multilingual Internet
posted Thu, 2011-05-12 18:13 by
We’ve been paying close attention to the results of a new survey that details European internet users’ online language preferences.
The survey, ordered by the European Commission, throws up some rather intriguing statistics for anyone with an interest in eCommerce and export in the European Union:
tags: eCommerce, Foreign Language Internet, International Trade, Multilingual Marketing
Britons’ work opportunities hampered by poor foreign language skills
posted Wed, 2011-05-11 11:17 by
British workers’ poor foreign language skills are holding them back from jobs in European Union institutions, an official said this week.
While British workers account for twelve percent of the EU population, they hold just five percent of positions in the European Parliament and Commission, leaving them vastly under-represented in the EU workforce.
tags: Employment, European Union, Export, Foreign Language Internet, International Trade, language
The Times places Lingo24 on the Fast Track
posted Tue, 2011-05-10 13:36 by
The Fast Track table lists the top 100 UK companies with the fastest growing sales internationally, and we’re very pleased to have placed at number 81. (Which, in fact, makes us the fastest growing translation agency in the UK!)
So what’s the secret of our speedy international growth? Well, it’s not a secret as such – our growth has been largely fuelled by export and our presence in the foreign language internet.
tags: Foreign Language Internet, International Trade, The Times' Fast Track, Translation Industry
