CEBU CITY, Cebu - Cebu's attractiveness as an outsourcing destination has again captured an international company engaged in language translation to open its business facility here, its first hub in Asia. Lingo24, a translation company based in Aberdeen, Scotland with operations in various European countries and the United States over the past decade, is eyeing to locate in Cebu and is now aggressively looking for a potential site here as well as talking with industry stakeholders, according to company founder and managing director, Christian Arno. ''We have seen a lot of international companies coming to Cebu, which means that it is a very progressive place and we believe Cebu is one of the best cities to start our operations in Asia,'' Arno told reporters in an interview following a Congressional Forum recently concluded here, which he and other private businessmen attended. ''Our next major step is to move to Asia,'' Arnold said, adding that ''secondary cities like Cebu make it a fitting destination for business because the lifestyle here is a balance of work and leisure.''
According to Arno, his company's Cebu hub, targeted to open by February, will initially hire six employees to head the Asian operations. In the course of two years, it will add another 100 employees. Lingo24 translates corporate internal communications and documents into 25 languages. He said the company is on the look-out for multilingual people who are well-versed in English, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese and Korean languages. The company's top services include technical translation, financial translation, legal translation, marketing translation, document translation, translation for market research, interpreting services and website localization.
