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Translation and Interpretation Company for Sale in London, UK

Internationally established, triple ISO certified specialist legal translation company seeking a full sale.
This Business is on a Premium Plan
Established 10-20 year(s)
Employees 2 - 5
Legal Entity Private Limited Company
Reported Sales USD 200 - 300 thousand
Run Rate Sales USD 320 thousand
EBITDA Margin 10 - 20 %
Industries Translation and Interpretation
Locations  London
Local Time 8:15 AM Europe / London
Listed By Business Owner / Director
Status Active
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Full Sale
Asking Price: USD 200 thousand (Native Currency: GBP 150,000)
Reason: The owner wishes to retire after building a business with a strong reputation in the City, and hand ... View More
Includes physical assets worth USD 1.35 thousand
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Business Overview
- Established in 2011, we are one of the top UK firms offering financial, legal and technical translation services.
- We have over 40 languages on offer (historical specialists in Russian and European languages).
- Our main client base are top legal firms in London and overseas (dealing in arbitration, litigation, dispute resolution, matrimonial cases), notaries public, financial PR companies, embassies and VIPs.
-Global services agreements in place for key clients.
- We are members of the Association of Translation Companies and have three ISO certificates (for legal interpreting, general interpreting, translation)
- We use a top-of-the-range translation management platform, Plunet, with over 15 years' worth of data.
- The founder has over 25 years of experience in the same industry.
-We benefit from a very high client retention and referral rate.
- Day to day operations do not involve the Founder's input.
- We have an experienced Translation Manager who is happy to stay on in the business, working remotely.
- All our translation and revision work is done by over 300 qualified, ISO-compliant freelancers who are registered with us.
- Our business is seasonal in nature, and we experience high demand in quarters 1 and 4 i. e. from October till March.
- Business revenue forecast for the next two years is £250,000, and £300,000 respectively.
Products & Services Overview
We offer B2B services: certified human translations, interpreting (simultaneous and consecutive, court interpreting), reviews and certification of machine translations.
Assets Overview
Physical assets included are MAC computers and Tourguide equipment by Sennheiser (portable set for up to 40 people).
Intangible assets include Plunet, our translation business management platform, and a substantial, verified client database. We are on a shortlist of translation service providers for UK local authorities and other government bodies, having won the tender to be listed by a government procurement agency, NEPO.
Facilities Overview
We use a serviced office with a 9AM-5PM (GMT) manned reception and a personal call answering service (email messages from callers delivered to us by email)
We have a small office (3 desks) in a beautiful Victorian building, and need to give a two-month notice period should we wish to vacate it.
- We use a scalable third party translation business management /CRM system (Plunet), considered to be a benchmark in translation industry.
- Our translation managers can and do work remotely.
Capitalization Overview
The founder is 100 per sent shareholder, the business is not geared and has been funded through reserves and organic growth since inception.
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