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Company History

Asian Absolute was founded by our current MD, Henry Clough, in 2000.

Henry spent many years in Asia in the 1980s and 1990s. When he moved into international communications in the UK, he was disappointed to see the number of reputable companies who were using mediocre Asian language translations - despite their very high standards for English communications.

Asian Absolute was established to challenge the status quo by providing translations as engaging and well written as their English counterparts.

We began with an East Asian focus, and have offered all world languages to the same high standard since 2003. We first extended our services to cover Middle East and Indic languages, then hired people with the necessary experience and skills to handle European languages.

In 2004 we expanded our London office and opened our wholly-owned Beijing operation. Asian Absolute Beijing was originally a production centre for projects from the London office, with in-house teams for Chinese translation, as well as typesetting, website and software localization in all languages.

In response to a number of international clients who asked to work directly with the team in Beijing, we established a client-facing capability in 2006. The Beijing headcount is now double that of the London head office, and we're experiencing remarkably rapid expansion of our client base in Asia, while enjoying continued growth in the US and Europe.

In 2009 we opened in Chiayi and Melbourne, with Tokyo following in 2010.

We're excited that our growth has brought us to the stage where we can handle the needs of the very largest clients. No matter how big we get we will continue to focus hard on retaining the personal touch that underpinned our early success. After all, happy clients are still what motivate us to come in to work in the morning.

We look forward to being of assistance to you. If you would like to know more about Asian Absolute, please contact us, or enquire for a free quote.