london founded 1989 founders norman dawood products dubbing subtitle captioning voice over translation and post production services website official website the vsi group voice and script international ltd. is a major provider of dubbing subtitle captioning voice over translation and post production services within the broadcast and corporate communications industries . the vsi group 1 consists of 20 studios and production facilities . vsi london the group s central hub and headquarters is where most of the larger projects and international channel launches are managed . established in 1989 vsi employs over 250 staff and utilizes a network of approximately 3 500 freelance translators worldwide localizing over 100 000 programme hours into over 40 languages each year . in february 2013 the vsi group and dcinex announced that they have entered into a commercial partnership aiming at providing one stop shop content services to movie distributors . 2 in the same month cornelia al khaled joined vsi london head office of the vsi group as managing director . 3 in 2014 vsi was awarded netflix preferred vendor status for timed text localisation services . in the following year vsi announced a partnership with wpp a leading audio post production company based in the netherlands . 4 contents 1 history 2 branches 3 references 4 external links history edit vsi was set up in 1989 by managing director norman dawood and has been privately owned ever since . norman dawood is the son of n. j. dawood the first translator of the koran and the tales from the thousand and one nights into modern english . vsi offers dubbing and subtitling and works closely with n j dawood s translation company aradco based under the same roof . vsi was the first western company offering electronic subtitling in chinese japanese and korean . branches edit vsi has dubbing studios and subtitling offices in london paris berlin 5 vsi berlin gmbh rome amsterdam vsi translation & subtitling bv stockholm brussels barcelona budapest zagreb belgrade bucharest warsaw moscow istanbul tel aviv cairo new york and los angeles . references edit imperial college . sponsors 1 july 2011 . retrieved on 30 may 2013 pr gateway . vsi group and dcinex to cooperate on digital content services 4 february 2013 . retrieved on 20 february 2013 the tribune . vsi london appoints a new managing director 26 march 2013 . retrieved on 26 march 2013 entertainment business . samenwerking tussen vsi en wim pel productions 22 june 2015 . retrieved on 30 june 2013 medialogic . referenzen projekte july 2007 . retrieved on 24 may 2013 external links edit official website netflix preferred supplier retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vsi group & oldid 728588460 categories companies based in londoncompanies of the united kingdom by head office locationtranslation companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 6 july 2016 at 09 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view