headquarters edinburgh united kingdom area served global revenue 9.1 m 2014 owner christian arno number of employees 230 slogan love your language website lingo24.com lingo24 is a uk registered translation company that was formed in 2001 . contents 1 history & overview 2 awards 3 references 4 external links history & overview edit lingo24 is a business translation and localisation services company founded as an online start up by oxford university languages graduate christian arno from his parents aberdeen home in september 2001 . the company launched its new zealand operation in 2003 romania in 2005 panama in early 2008 and edinburgh later the same year . 1 in 2011 lingo24 opened an asian hub in cebu city the philippines and expanded its european operations with the opening of an office in nuremberg germany in may 2012 . 2 in 2013 andrew campbell was appointed as global managing director and worldwide staff exceeded 200 . lingo24 was named the 62nd largest translation agency worldwide by common sense advisory and turnover for the year was 7.5 million . in 2014 lingo24 signed a multi million pound investment deal with a consortium led by former wood mackenzie chairman paul gregory . 3 american entrepreneur and investor ted alling joined the company s advisory board . lingo24 launched an api allowing customers to connect directly to its translation platform . in 2015 lingo24 was named the 54th largest translation agency in the world and the company launched plug ins for its api for major e commerce platforms magento and demandware . lingo24 has over 230 full time employees around the globe and works with a network of over 4 000 native speaking professional translators . awards edit the company was named as the best e business start up in scotland in 2002 and arno won the shell livewire young entrepreneur of the year competition in 2003 . 1 he was also a finalist in the scotsman entrepreneur of the year award at the national business awards for scotland 2009 . 4 in december 2009 lingo24 won two awards at the inaugural heraldscotland.com digital business awards one in the export category and one in business to business . 5 in march 2010 it was announced that lingo24 won two awards a customer king award from cisco 6 and one at the international trade awards for the scotland region which was sponsored by hsbc . lingo24 was nominated as one of the regional finalists in hsbc s business thinking initiative culminating in company founder christian arno going on a thought exchange trip to istanbul in september 2010 . lingo24 eventually won the hsbc business thinking final following an awards ceremony in edinburgh on tuesday 26 october . 7 lingo24 was placed on the times international track 100 in 2011 8 making it the fastest growing translation company in the uk . it reported international sales growth of 57 per cent in the previous two years . in october 2012 lingo24 won an excellence award at the taus user conference seattle for its new coach translation technology platform . 9 in may 2014 lingo24 was named scottish exporter of the year and international trade best professional service advisor at the inaugural scottish export awards . 10 references edit a b shell livewire case study christian arno lingo24 from a spare room in aberdeenshire to a global business . www.scottish enterprise.com . retrieved 2015 10 29 . investors back edinburgh translation agency lingo24 . bbc news . retrieved 2015 10 29 . soap maker cleans up at awards as she is named entrepreneur of year . www.scotsman.com . retrieved 2015 10 29 . heraldscotland.com digital business awards 2009 times online scottish agenda christian arno managing director lingo24 . telegraph.co.uk . retrieved 2015 10 29 . international track 200 league table . www.fasttrack.co.uk . retrieved 2015 10 29 . taus . www.taus.net . retrieved 2015 10 29 . lingo24 scottish exporter of the year 2014 . www.scottish enterprise.com . retrieved 2015 10 29 . external links edit the edinburgh 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