Lionbridge Expands Its Relationship With Nikon as Premier Localization Provider for European Products

WALTHAM, Mass., - Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX), announced that it has expanded its relationship with Nikon, the leading Japanese company specializing in optics and imaging. With the expansion, Lionbridge has been named the premier provider of translation and localization services for Nikon Europe.

To ensure quality and efficiency for Nikon, Lionbridge and its translation partners are using Logoport(TM), Lionbridge's web-architected translation memory platform. This advanced technology provides program managers, translators and quality assurance specialists to access Nikon's language assets anytime, anywhere in the world in a secure, web- hosted environment.

By leveraging Logoport and using Lionbridge as the main supplier of translation services, Nikon has centralized its linguistic assets while enabling in- country resources to manage translation and review. This combination is enabling Nikon to reduce its costs by a third, accelerate time to market and improve consistency in the language quality.

"We have a commitment to provide citizens of all European countries a consistent level of quality simultaneously," says David Ward, Marketing Systems Manager Nikon Europe BV. "Centralizing our translation efforts has significantly improved the business process. Lionbridge's technology and services allow Nikon to keep up with Europe's expansion."

Nikon Europe BV is responsible for importing, sales and servicing of cameras. The Company originally selected Lionbridge four years ago to handle the translation of mechanic manuals and marketing, ensuring their European customers immediate full access to Nikon products in their own language. In a business restructuring process, Nikon Europe moved from a country based model, where each national sales office in Europe individually handled documentation translation, to a regional model, where the European head office coordinates translations for the whole European region.

"Working together, Lionbridge and Nikon are providing Nikon customers a consistent level of translation across all the countries in Europe," said Paula Shannon, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Lionbridge. "Nikon's selection of Lionbridge for their pan European expansion reflects the value of our global scale and the power of our hosted technology platform. By having an outsourcing partner that can manage the complete program for language management, Nikon can increase quality and accelerate time to market to advance their position as a market leader in optics and imaging."

About Lionbridge

Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) is a leading provider of globalization and testing services. Lionbridge combines global resources with proven program management methodologies to serve as an outsource partner throughout a client's product and content lifecycle - from development to globalization, testing and maintenance. Global organizations in all industries rely on Lionbridge services to increase international market share, speed adoption of global products and content, and enhance their return on enterprise applications and IT system investments. Based in Waltham, Massachusetts, Lionbridge maintains solution centers in 26 countries and provides services under the Lionbridge (R) and VeriTest(R) brands. To learn more, visit http://www.lionbridge .com.