SDL Desktop Products Celebrates a Year of Solid Growth

Year-on-year Sales Nearly Double for 2002

SDL Maidenhead , United Kingdom
06 March 2003

SDL Desktop Products, a division of SDL International that focuses on multilingual productivity products for corporations, localization service providers, and professional translators, announced today preliminary results for 2002 that showed product sales grew by over 90% for 2002 sales year.

 “Ease of use, full support for TMX, Trados compatibility, free training and support; these are the difference makers that companies and translators are looking for today, when shopping for productivity tools,” said Brian Briggs, Vice President of SDL Desktop Products. “We’re not there yet, but customer response and our growing sales momentum positions us well to be the dominant player within the next 3 years.”


About SDL Desktop Products

The Desktop Products division of SDL International (London Stock Exchange: ‘SDL’) focuses exclusively in developing and distributing globalization productivity tools that decrease the time and cost associated with creating localized documentation and software.  SDL Desktop Product’s customers include global corporations, software publishers, translators and localization service providers worldwide.

More information can be found at http://www.sdlproducts.com.

About SDL

SDL is the leader in Global Information Management (GIM) solutions that empower organizations to accelerate the delivery of high-quality multilingual content to global markets. Its enterprise software and services integrate with existing business systems to manage the delivery of global information from authoring to publication and throughout the distributed translation supply chain.

Global industry leaders rely on SDL to provide enterprise software or hosted services for their GIM processes, including ABN-Amro, Best Western, Bosch, Canon, Chrysler, CNH, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Philips, SAP, Sony, SUN Microsystems and Virgin Atlantic.

SDL has implemented more than 480 enterprise GIM solutions, has deployed over 150,000 software licenses across the GIM ecosystem and provides access to on-demand translation portals for 10 million customers per month. Over 1,000 service professionals deliver consulting, implementation and language services through its global infrastructure of more than 50 offices in 30 countries. For more information, visit www.sdl.com

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Nicola Bogle (SDL)
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