SDL (company)

SDL plc
legal form	PLC
ISIN	GB0009376368
founding	1992
Seat	Maidenhead , UK
management	Adolfo Hernandez, CEO
Number of employees	3,879
sales	£ 323.3 million
Branch	Translation service provider, translation technology, CMS, editorial systems
Website	www.sdl.com
	As of December 31, 2018

SDL plc , headquartered in Maidenhead ( UK ) a publicly traded UK company is in development, consulting and sales of editorial systems , software solutions for online marketing and services of translation technology and . The company has more than 70 offices in 38 countries. The German headquarters are in Stuttgart. SDL has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 1999 and is part of the FTSE 250 index . Further locations in Germany are in Munich and Leipzig.

Customers

SDL serves over 1500 corporate customers, including ABN-Amro, Best Western , Bosch , Canon , Chrysler , CNH , Emirates , GlaxoSmithKline , Hewlett-Packard , KLM , Lexus , Microsoft , NetApp , Ricoh , Philips , SAP and Sony .

history

The company was founded in 1992 by Mark Lancaster in the UK. The first overseas office was opened in France in 1996. In 1999, SDL shares were first traded on the London Stock Exchange. The company has so far taken over the following companies:

In 2000 SDL acquired ITP (short for International Translation & Publishing), in 2001 Alpnet and the machine translation divisions of Transparent Language. The takeover of Trados , a German competitor in the field of translation software, followed in 2005. Tridion, a provider of content management systems (CMS), and PASS Engineering, developer of Passolo software, were added in 2007 . In 2008 SDL bought Idiom Technologies, a global information management company.

In 2010, Fredhopper became the property of SDL, a Dutch provider of solutions for e-commerce. In the same year, SDL also acquired Xopus, a company active in the field of online XML editing, and the Californian manufacturer of the machine translation software Language Weaver. In May 2011, SDL acquired the Dutch CMS provider Calamares. In 2012, Alterian, a company specializing in campaign management and social media analytics , followed. This was followed in 2013 by bemoko, a manufacturer of mobile web solutions.