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5 September 2010       

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Client News

March 2010
XTRA to Translate Mobile Phone Web Special for FIFA World Cup(TM) 2010
XTRA is currently localizing a web special for the upcoming football world championship into 10 Eastern European languages.



February 2010
Helmet Manufacturer Relies on XTRA to Localize Formula One Campaign
Schuberth, a leading manufacturer of motorcycle helmets, entrusted XTRA with the localization of their web campaign for the eagerly awaited 2010 Formula One season, in which Schuberth will equip the main competitors Michael Schumacher (Mercedes) and Fernando Alonso (Ferrari).



January 2010
Mobile Phone Provider Continues to Rely on XTRA for Global e-Learning Program
Following a 3-year track of successful projects, XTRA has just completed the localization of another e-Learning project into 25 languages.



December 2009
XTRA to Localize Country Websites
General Electric ("GE") is about to launch new country websites. As part of this initiative, XTRA will provide localization for Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Turkish and Indonesian.



October 2009
XTRA Translates Sales Trainings into "FIGS" Languages
This is the second time that DELL chose XTRA. This time the task was to provide translations of technical presentations, emails and other material to train Channel Partners in France, Italy, Germany and Spain.



May 2009
Leading Manufacturer of Mobile Phones to Rely on XTRA for Global e-Learning Initiatives
Following two years of successful collaboration, one of the world's leading manufacturers of mobile phones is again counting on a winning team: In close collaboration with the company's media agency, XTRA will localize a series of globally launched e-learning courses into 29 languages, including new markets, such as the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.



March 2009
Leading Web Agency and XTRA Partner to Provide SEO Editing Services
A leading international communications agency has chosen to work with XTRA for a new service offering called Search Engine Optimization (SEO). The first joint project focused on rewriting existing content for one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies in such a way that web pages achieve better rankings in search engines. Feedback from the client was very positive.



February 2009
e-Commerce Websites of POLO and FISSLER Localized
POLO, a leading supplier of motorcycle clothing, accessories and equipment, and FISSLER, one of the world's leading brands for high-quality cookware, relied on the successful collaboration of their web agencies and XTRA to launch their product websites in English.



Company News

March 2010
XTRA to Implement SDL TM Server 2009
To support customers planning migration to SDL's next-generation Translation Memory technology, XTRA is starting internal roll-out of SDL Trados Studio and implementation of SDL TM Server 2009.



February 2010
XTRA Reports 34% Increase in Revenue for FY 2009
As in the past years, XTRA has exceeded its annual growth target of 20 percent. In Fiscal Year 2009, turnover was up 34.1% on 2008. Thanks to a high single-digit profit margin it was possible to increase the leverage limit further. To manage the increased workload, the headcount rose from 16 to 20 employees.



January 2010
XTRA to Become Lead Vendor for SAP
XTRA was selected as Lead Vendor for the ongoing translation of proposal documents from English into German. The decision was based on XTRA's performance in MarCom translations and experience in handling Idiom WorldServer projects.



December 2009
Growing Business with Long-Standing IT Customers in 2009
For XTRA, 2009 saw significantly growing business with XTRA's long-standing IT customers IBM, HP, SAP and Oracle. As a consequence, despite the difficult general economic climate, 2009 will be the most successful year in the company's history.



August 2009
XTRA Hires New Staff and Expands Pool of Freelance Translators
To manage the heavy workload announced for the months to come, XTRA has hired two new project managers and one proofreader supporting the German department. Also, the pool of approved freelance translators has been expanded to 80.



May 2009
XTRA Now DELL Approved Supplier
After successful completion of a project involving translations of training material for channel partners in several European countries, XTRA has now been awarded the status of "DELL Approved Supplier".



March 2009
XTRA Assigned Reponsibility for German Translation of HYPERION Products
After PeopleSoft, JD Edwards (Enterprise One and World) and Siebel CRM, the performance management application Hyperion is the fourth product line acquired by ORACLE to be assigned to XTRA.



February 2009
Server-Based Translation Memory System SDLX Synergy Implemented
With the implementation of SDLX Synergy Server from SDL, XTRA is moving to server-based progress tracking and translation memory management. At the same time, the Support and Maintenance agreement with SDL provides XTRA and its customers with a secure upgrade path to SDL Trados Studio 2009 when the new technology becomes available.



  
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