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Lingo24
Lingo24 is a UK-registered translation company that was formed in 2001.
History & Overview.
Lingo24 is a business translation and localisation services company, founded as an online start-up by Oxford University languages graduate Christian Arno, from his parents' Aberdeen home in September 2001. The company launched its New Zealand operation in 2003, Romania in 2005, Panama in early 2008 and Edinburgh later the same year. In 2011 Lingo24 opened an Asian hub in Cebu City, the Philippines and expanded its European operations
with the opening of an office in Nuremberg, Germany, in May 2012.
In 2013 Andrew Campbell was appointed as Global Managing Director, and worldwide staff exceeded 200. Lingo24 was named the 62nd largest translation agency worldwide by Common Sense Advisory, and turnover for the year was £7.5 million.
In 2014 Lingo24 signed a multimillion-pound investment deal with a consortium led by former Wood Mackenzie Chairman Paul Gregory. American entrepreneur and investor Ted Alling joined the company's Advisory Board. Lingo24 launched an API, allowing customers