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LCJ Secures New Multi-Million-Euro Contract With Microsoft

Software giant impressed by LCJ’s knowledge of Microsoft products and ‘best-of-breed’ language-handling capabilities

DORTMUND, Germany, October 15, 2002 – LCJ EEIG, Europe's leading localization group, signed a strategic, double-digit million-Euro contract with Microsoft to perform multiple localization projects over the next three years as a Microsoft Premier Localization Vendor. The worldwide leader in software, services and Internet technologies elevated LCJ to Premier Vendor status after years of successful collaboration on numerous projects. Microsoft's Vendor Program seeks to enable the vendor to maximize its return on expenditure by working with a select number of scalable, reliable and high-performance vendors.

Almost every major Business Unit at Microsoft, including Developer International, PBSG (Office and Business Tools), Windows, Enterprise Server Group as well as CDDG (Content Development and Delivery Group) will work with LCJ to adapt new Microsoft products and services to local markets. Over the years, LCJ has handled numerous important localization projects for Microsoft.

"Microsoft has worked with LCJ for many years and knows it has the experience and systems to consistently deliver high quality work. We are pleased to award LCJ Premier status as a localization vendor" said Bernhard Kohlmeier, Director Integrated Product Services at Microsoft.

"We are proud that Microsoft has selected us as a Premier Vendor" said Matthias Caesar, Managing Director for LCJ. "This opportunity helps us to expand our very good and long-established relationship with Microsoft. We will continue to provide Microsoft with outstanding professional services - the foundation of our current and future success in collaborating with customers."

"This contract represents an important milestone in the strategic development of LCJ EEIG," said Marc Jonckers, Strategic Development Officer for LCJ. "LCJ embodies a unique approach to localization, in which superb, costumer-focused performance is the key element. Microsoft clearly values LCJ's consistent ability to perform excellently, even in turbulent economic times such as these." LCJ, Europe's largest independent localization solution provider, founded in 1999, includes Locatech GmbH (Germany), CrossGap srl (Italy) and Jonckers Translation & Engineering sa (Belgium). Later in 2000, LCJ was joined by Logoscript s.l., located in Spain. The group has 130 employees and an annual turnover in excess of 15 million Euros. LCJ can satisfy virtually all customer requirements through its diverse group of ICT specialists, linguists and senior project managers, who blend their know-how to turn software products, websites, and e-commerce applications into different language solutions.