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The 2025 Peak Translations team

A Decade of Excellence: Helen Provart’s 10-Year Celebration at the Helm of Peak Translations

In the dynamic world of business, where challenges and triumphs intertwine, milestones are not just markers of time but testimonies to resilience and dedication. This holds especially true for Helen Provart, the dynamic owner and leader of Peak Translations, who is celebrating an impressive 10-year anniversary at the helm of this linguistic powerhouse. As we raise a toast to this milestone, it’s not just a celebration of a decade but also a nod to the remarkable 45-year legacy of Peak Translations.

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Ready to trade with new overseas markets?

As our relationship with countries in the EU and internationally changes, we are presented with more and more opportunities for growth.  When engaging with new markets, effective communication is key. It is not enough to simply translate your marketing material into your chosen language. Six areas you may wish to consider in your market entry planning:   Is the size of territory large enough to justify your market entry cost? Is your type of product in demand, or do you

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5 top tips to boost your export sales

I often hear people complaining that they haven’t had much success with export sales in overseas markets or that certain markets have proved difficult for them to enter and I have often wondered what the approach has been to those markets. I’m sure most companies will have developed an export strategy and researched the markets but how many of them consider international communication as a part of their overall strategy? And how important is it? Do you struggle to get

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3 routes to your overseas markets

One of the key elements to ensuring success in overseas markets is to approach them in the right way. There are many different ways to approach markets, all of which have varying levels of involvement, cost and resources. Following on from the information provided in our “Which approach works best for you?” webinar, here I’m going to look at just a few examples and the requirements for each in terms of how you communicate with your target audience: The Remote

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Looking for a new opportunity?

Interested in joining our award-winning Team?   We’re hiring!!   We currently have a vacancy for an enthusiastic, organised and client-focused Business Operations Assistant with great attention to detail, to assist with our growing client base. We are a small, yet ambitious, award-winning company based in Whaley Bridge and established since 1978. Peak Translations is a specialist and prestigious language services provider, supplying translation, interpreting and other language services to a wide range of national and international clients. We pride

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Why pay to have your translation revised?

Wanting to find the best price for a service is a driver for any business. Paying for translation is no different. Yet, like any other service or product, reducing the price comes either at the expense of speed or quality. Reduce the cost and maintain the speed, and quality drops (since the cheapest translators are the cheapest, and most available, for a reason). Reduce the cost and maintain the quality, and the translation will take longer to deliver. After all,

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Navigating the Ethical Landscape of Machine Translation

Machine translation, the automated process of translating text or speech from one language to another, has become an widely-used tool in our interconnected world. Services like Google Translate and DeepL have made it easier to communicate across language barriers, facilitating global collaboration, commerce, and understanding. And many translation companies have developed their own neural machine translation tools to integrate into their existing workflows. However, beneath the surface of this technology lie several ethical considerations that demand our attention. In this

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Unlocking International Markets: Exporting for UK Machinery Manufacturers

In an increasingly interconnected global economy, the role of exporting has taken on monumental significance, especially for industries that thrive on innovation and precision engineering, such as machinery manufacturing. For the United Kingdom’s machinery manufacturers, tapping into international markets isn’t just an opportunity – it’s a necessity for growth and sustainability. Central to this endeavour is compliance with the EU Machinery Directive, a critical aspect that ensures both safety and effective communication across linguistic borders. In this blog, we delve

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Recommendation Programme

Introducing Peak’s Recommendation Programme It is likely that we all know companies who are working internationally. It could be our own clients. Contacts through our networking. Or perhaps even a different department of the organisation we work for. As a business with a 45-year heritage, Peak Translations understands and is fully committed to developing long-standing, sustainable relationships with both its clients and suppliers. We pride ourselves on our exacting standards. That is an investment that pays off when many of

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Colleague Referral Programme

Introducing Peak’s Referral Programme It is likely that we all know companies who are working internationally. It could be our own clients. Contacts through our networking. Or perhaps even a different department of the organisation we work for. As a business with a 45-year heritage, Peak Translations understands and is fully committed to developing long-standing, sustainable relationships with both its clients and suppliers. We pride ourselves on our exacting standards. That is an investment that pays off when many of

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Partnership Programme

Partnership Programme

Introducing Peak’s Partner Programme It is likely that we all know companies who are working internationally. It could be our own clients. Contacts through our networking. Or perhaps even a different department of the organisation we work for. As a business with a 45-year heritage, Peak Translations understands and is fully committed to developing long-standing, sustainable relationships with both its clients and suppliers. We pride ourselves on our exacting standards. That is an investment that pays off when many of

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How do you measure the value of a translation partner?

When you’ve no personal knowledge of your target language, it can be incredibly difficult to measure if your translation partner is doing a good job. They may well refer to their ‘value add’ but what does this mean in concrete terms, and what impact does it have on your finished work? At Peak Translations, we articulate our ‘value add’ as six key qualities: 1. Subject specialisms Each of our talented translators is hand-picked for his or her subject specialism; be

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