SDL plc ("SDL"), the world’s leading provider of multilingual solutions offering scalable translation technology and services, today announced that it had been successful in winning several new projects from Toshiba Regensburg Operations.

 The translation and project management work follows an earlier contract to localize the new Toshiba convertible Portégé 3500, the smartest fusion of notebook and Tablet PC,  into Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish. Projects included the creation of basic layouts for the document templates, User’s Manual, Quick Start and Online Manual. Toshiba´s Portégé 3500 won the 2002 Best of COMDEX Award for PCs.

SDL has also been informed that it has been chosen to become a preferred localization partner of Toshiba Europe GmbH. This decision has been taken based on an internal Toshiba project called "Improvement of the Localization Process for User Manuals", which assessed availability, commitment, lead-times, output quality, project communication and costs.

“We are delighted to enjoy this vote of confidence in our project services”, confirmed SDL’s Group Divisional Director, Dominic Kinnon. “Toshiba is a global brand with a reputation across the world for quality and we are glad to play our small part in this.”

“We have chosen SDL because they were able to meet our demanding schedules, whilst maintaining the high layout and translation standards required by these projects.” commented Patrik Indola, Deputy Manager Software Development of Toshiba Regensburg Operations.


About Toshiba

The Computer Systems Division of Toshiba Europe GmbH is a leading vendor for mobile computing solutions. In addition to notebooks, the company offers servers and PDAs in Europe, Middle East and Africa under the Toshiba brand name. Headquartered in Neuss, Germany, the Computer Systems Division of Toshiba Europe GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Toshiba Corporation, the world’s eighth-largest computer and electronics company.

Toshiba Corporation is a leader in information and communications systems, electronic components, consumer products and power systems. The company’s integration of these wide-ranging capabilities assures its position as an innovator in advanced components, products and systems. Toshiba has more than 176,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of over US$40 billion (2001).