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RWS Group, known commercially as RWS, is a British multinational AI solutions company. It provides intellectual property translation, filing and search services, technical and commercial translation and localisation, and develops and supports translation productivity and management software.
History
The company was created in 1982 from a merger between M.H. Randall & Partners (a specialist translation company) and Woolcott & Co (a specialist patent and technical information searching company). In 2005 it acquired Eclipse Translations, a company formed in December 1996. In 2015 it acquired Corporate Translations Inc. (CTi), a Connecticut-based life sciences translation and linguistic validation provider for a $70 million in cash. Then in 2017, the company acquired Luz, Inc., a US-based life sciences language services provider for $82.5 million: the company raised £40 million of the consideration by issuing 12.1m ordinary shares with the rest funded by a $26.3 million banking facility from Barclays.
In 2017, RWS purchased Czech-based localization provider Moravia IT for $320 million, more than doubling the size of the group.
On 4 November 2020, RWS completed an all-share combination with major competitor SDL, creating the world's largest technology and language services provider. The transaction was valued at approximately £854 million.
