Our History

Anglia Translations Ltd was founded in 1992 by Anthony Withers, organically growing out of his earlier work teaching business French to local businesses. A family run business that is now led by his daughter Mary Gilbey, we provide language solutions to global partners around the world.

Timeline

Our key milestones, challenges and successes that have shaped Anglia Translations, charting our journey from small beginnings to becoming a trusted language partner for clients around the world.

1989
From humble beginnings

Anthony Withers sets up a Business Tuition company in his back bedroom.

1991

Name change to Anglia Translations as clients are increasingly asking for translations rather than business tuition. (Anglia as we are in East Anglia and because it began with ‘A’ so appeared at the start of the ‘Yellow Pages’ (equivalent of page 1 of Google search back in those days).

1993
The Early Years

Anglia Translations gets Limited Company status and officially Anglia Translations Limited is born. At the same time Anthony moves to an office in Kinnaird Hill’s building in Huntingdon and takes on his first employee, Krystel Hountchégnon.

1994

Anglia Translations Ltd becomes an accredited member of the Association of Translation Companies (ATC) which we have maintained until today. We were involved in drawing up what became the QA measures specifically adapted for translation companies, now known as ISO17100:2015.

1994

Anglia wins an EU contract to translate from Finnish and Swedish into English. This work carried on for many years and enhanced Anglia’s reputation helping to gain other clients and build up the business.

1995

The team grows over the next decade with Rebecca Keane (who stays with us for 15 years), Anne-Laure Bossé & Magda Stanek amongst several others. We move to bigger premises in the Kinnaird Hill building.

1996

Our network of international translators grows. 

1997

We put in place our first Quality Control system based on ISO 9000.

2006

Judit Denny joins the team (and is still with us today)

2008
The Digital Transformation

Technology begins to play a part in our industry. Google Translate (early machine translation) started being used widely in the public domain but was still full of inaccuracies.

2010

Anglia achieves ISO9001:2008 and has maintained this accreditation until today (now ISO9001:2015).

2012

Anglia enhances its service by adopting Translation Memory software for long term ongoing clients.

2014

Mary Gilbey joins her father’s company as Sales & Marketing manager with the view to taking on more responsibility in the coming years.

2015

Anglia works towards becoming a paperless office as they switch many processes over to online systems.

2016

Mary Gilbey takes over as Managing Director and the founder Anthony takes more of a back seat.

2018

Anglia Translations is the Cambridgeshire Chambers of Commerce Global Awards winner for International Service Provider.

2020

Boom years for Anglia during the Covid pandemic & after.

2021

After remote working during 2020-21, Anglia relocate to new offices in the Alconbury Weald Enterprise Campus – a bright welcoming green space that reflected the brand that we had become.

2022
Giving back

After 2 successful years for Anglia, but some very challenging years for charities, Anglia decides to share a % of their profits with local charity  Anna’s Hope. This is the start of Anglia’s ongoing CSR strategy.

2023

After many years being involved with the local charitable sector on an ad hoc basis, Anglia formalises their CSR strategy and incorporates it into their core DNA & processes.

2023

SME News Best Translation & Interpretation Agency 2023, Cambridgeshire

2024

AI is the ‘buzz’ word in our industry. Anglia adapt & pivot to the new AI influenced market reality and expand their service offering to include AI Assisted translations, integrating the latest technology available but always with human oversight.

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Who We Work With

At Anglia Translations Ltd, we work with a wide range of businesses across diverse industries. From multilevel marketing companies and health and wellbeing brands to technology innovators and automotive leaders, our expertise helps organisations of all sizes connect with global audiences, and we’re proud to support many more sectors along the way.

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