Company History
Applied Language Solutions started in October 2003 with Gavin Wheeldon,
that's him on the right of the screen, working from his back bedroom doing everything - sales, programming, project management,
general administration - you name it, he did it. As the company began to grow, Gavin realised he couldn’t do everything himself. So,
in February 2004 Paul Wheeldon,
Gavin’s brother, joined the company as Chief Operations Officer. Paul pushed through obtaining
ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO18001, DIN and Investors in People accreditations, which helped move the company and quality of service to a new level.
Applied Language opened it’s first office in sunny Huddersfield. This was soon filled with talented and enthusiastic staff, but the parking was terrible and things were getting a little crowded. So in April 2005, Applied Language moved to much swankier offices just outside Huddersfield. But we soon filled that one as well. So in March 2006, we all moved again to our current offices in Armitage Bridge.
From here the team swelled and grew shoots in Bulgaria, where the project management and IT departments are based, and a sales team in California to enable us to help our USA customers with their translations. Shortly after, we opened offices in Barcelona, Paris and an office in Guatemala to support the sales operations in California.
More recently, we have set up offices in Asia with the opening of our Hong Kong and Indian offices. Not only will this allow us to help our Asian customers with their translations, but this will give us almost 24 hour global coverage, meaning our customers will have access to our services at any time of the day.
A huge part of the company’s success is down to the 7,000 plus highly qualified translators we have based around the world. To help the translators we launched, in February 2006, Talkbase.net. This dedicated web portal allows them a secure way to keep track of the projects they are working on and, just as importantly, ensure they are paid on time.
All the hard work the whole team in all of our office is beginning to pay off not only in the growth and profitability we’re now seeing. But, in recognition from various awards committees.
Now with over 70 staff and eight offices we’re consistently supplying accurate high quality interpreting and translation for letters, brochures, websites, contracts and technical journals into over 150 languages.
But the work doesn’t stop there. We have even more plans in the pipeline for expansion. In the next couple of years we will be opening more offices in Europe, Australia, Mainland China and on the East Coast of America.