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Press Releases

Use this section to browse through Argos’ previous and current press releases.

 

January 19th, 2006

Argos Translations launches new website

On January 19, 2006 Argos Translations officially launched its newly designed and fully updated corporate website: www.argostranslations.com.
The design, layout and functionality of Argos’ website has been greatly improved by this radical transformation, and the entire website will continue to change and grow with time. Argostranslations.com can be easily adapted to meet the changing needs of the company and will grow in functionality for Argos’ clients. Sections such as “services”, “industries”, “languages” and others have been greatly expanded while all of the content has been revised and updated. There are many new web-pages that have been added. Some of these, including an online form that can be used by translators to speed up the recruitment process, act to aid specific visitors.
Additionally, Argos has numerous new informative sections for general use by everyone including a daily updated News section on the state of the translation industry in Eastern Europe. Furthermore, Argos is in the process of implementing a free online Polish/English translator that will add further functionality to the website and offer a helpful service to website visitors.

July 21st, 2005

Argos joins the ALC

This July, Argos Translations expanded its involvement with select organizations within the translation industry by joining the Association of Language Companies.
By joining the ALC, Argos has broadened the list of esteemed organizations of which it is already a long standing member of, including GALA, LISA, and the ATA.
With this new membership Argos looks to assist in the improvement of the translation industry’s recognition at large. Argos believes that through active participation in such leading associations, global advancements in the collective standards, regulations and best practices of both translators and translation vendors alike, can be achieved.

June 16th, 2005

eBAY wins Argos’ premier prize at Bonn

During the recent Localization World Bonn 2005 conference held in Germany, Argos Translations handed out a 5,000 euro prize to the global online-auction giant: eBay, Inc. The prize constituted of a voucher in the stated amount good towards any of Argos’ translation and localization services.
eBay had won the prize by being chosen in a drawing during the closing ceremonies from amongst a wide array of participating companies including SAS Institute, Kraft, Daimler-Chrysler, Siemens, Sun and HP to name a few.
Argos has extensive experience in software and website localization and with eBay’s recent inclination to enter East and Central European markets, primarily that of Poland, the quality services that Argos provides will prove invaluable to the online merchant.
eBay’s Content Manager, who personally accepted the prize, had pointed out that the voucher will come in handy when eBay moves to redirect the content of their local websites to target the East European regions.

June 15th, 2005

Argos Translations ISO 9001/2000 certificate renewal

This month Argos Translations had successfully passed the audit of its ISO 9001/2000 certificate originally obtained in 2003 through BVQI. As an acknowledgement to Argos’ principal mission to continually improve its quality processes and procedures to offer its clients high quality services at outstanding value, the certificate had been extended for another 16-month period.
Over the past year Argos has gone through a company-wide effort to monitor processes and adapt new techniques to its project management process. In so doing, Argos has been able to maintain a low cost structure allowing the company to continue to offer attractive prices to clients without lowering the high level of service quality.
Argos is currently preparing to partner with a business information and consulting company in order to offer a broader range of services aimed at helping companies enter East and Central European markets. This collaboration will reflect Argos’ drive to expand upon its portfolio of valuable services that help businesses from major industries successfully enter foreign markets.