This morning I attended a World Bank Group /British-Polish Chamber of Commerce event, launching a report entitled “Doing Business in Poland 2015 Comparing Business Regulations for Domestic Firms in 18 Cities with 188 other Economies”. The report goes beyond looking purely at Warsaw as a place to do business, as it benchmarks 17 other […]
When the mysogenistic Samuel Johnson was asked about female preachers, he compared them to dogs walking on hind legs. “It is not done well; but it is surprising it is done at all”. That is sometimes how a foreigner’s efforts at speaking Polish are greeted in company. In his Letter From Poland, our friend at www.thenews.pl, Jo Harper, posed […]
You burn out quickly in any business if you’re not passionate about what you’re doing. At Lacrosse our field is language services: translating, editing, writing, localising, transcreating. This blog is about sharing our passion for our business- it will cover news of interesting projects and developments at Lacrosse, and discuss the challenges which our industry […]
We were approached this week by a company, who wanted clarification of accepted practices of the language services industry regarding translation memories. The agency they were using demanded an extra fee for giving them access to the translation memory. In Poland , client awareness of this issue is a fairly new topic and given that […]
Lacrosse is delighted to have been selected to translate three tourist guides for one of the Polish Regional Tourist Organisations responsible for promotion of tourism within their region. Lacrosse Experts in Translation was chosen for its capability to provide a finished text in a natural style, translated and studiously checked and edited by native speakers of […]
The Lacrosse presentation at the first Export to the UK Forum in Kraków receives a mention in an article in the BPCC’s quarterly “Contact” online magazine and on the BPCC website. Photo thanks to BPCC
April is a good month to start a new project as the root of the word is “aprere”, Latin for “to open”. We opened 2015 with a gift of a calander to our clients with photos commissioned from young Warsaw photographer Filip Bramorski. Filip is still taking some beautiful photos, encouraged, we hope, by our co-operation […]
Lacrosse took part in a Polish investment conference in Edinburgh entitled “Pole Position” on 26 February 2015 Lawrence Fahrenholz and Leszek Banaszak of the Polish Embassy in the UK The conference was organised by the Polish Business Chamber in Scotland, the office of the Polish Consul General in Edinburgh and the Trade and Investment Promotion […]
On the same day as the Polish Regions conference, 26 February, Lawrence and David from Lacrosse attended a reception at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to honour the memory of General Stanisław Maczek. During World War II, General Maczek commanded the Polish 1st Armoured Division, which played an instrumental role in the Allied liberation of France. […]
Lacrosse was very pleased to act as sponsor for the Polish and CEE Private Equity Conference at the Intercontinental Hotel on 6 February 2015 in Warsaw. Lacrosse provided simultaneous translation and consecutive translation for the event. The event was well attended and though only the second of its kind, it is becoming a must-attend event […]