OREANDA-NEWS. August 6, 2012. ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture, linguistic technologies and services, today announced that ABBYY Language Services, part of ABBYY Group, acquired 100 percent of Connective Language Services to increase its productive capacity and expand its service offerings in the North American market.

ABBYY Language Services provides comprehensive language support to corporate customers worldwide and develops innovative language services and technologies to successfully address the most complex translation projects. The company provides services to more than two thousand customers worldwide, including 20 percent of the top 100 global brands.

The acquisition of Connective Language Services contributes to promotion opportunities for ABBYY’s language services and technology in the North American market, and allows the company to significantly enhance its productive capacity, which enables the company to get involved into large, technologically challenging translation and localization projects.

“By joining ABBYY Language Services, Connective Language Services will be able to provide a wide range of services to existing and future clients. The worldwide reputation of ABBYY will allow us to undertake more sizeable jobs while maintaining, or even improving our responsiveness to the requirements of our customers,” says Connective Language Services President, Thierry Jambage.

“The union of professional and technologically advanced Connective Language Services team, with almost ten years of success in the American market will help us achieve a new level of development, and allow us to become a worthy competitor to the leaders of the global translation and localization market,” says ABBYY Language Services CEO, Ivan Smolnikov.

Now ABBYY Language Services offers translation and multilingual localization services for all industries into more than 80 European and Asian languages, and develops cutting-edge technologies aiding translation and localization processes that can help save significant time and money by improving the quality and performance of translators’ work.