Sdl Plc history

In 1995, the company opened its first branch office in France.

1996: Offices are opened in Japan and the United States.

In order to continue its expansion, SDL turned to investment group Friends Ivory & Sime Private Equity, which provided the company with a £1 million capital injection in 1997.

In 1998, SDL once again turned to the private investment market, now raising another £1.1 million through Friends Ivory & Sime and through JO Hambro.

SDL's performance seemed to bear out its stock price, as the company doubled its sales in 1999 over the previous year to more than £21 million.

At the beginning of 2001 the company bought three localization companies from Sykes Technologies Inc.

SDL continued to seek out new business areas in 2003, buying up Russia-based Lomac, a leading provider of translation, software, electronic technical document publishing, and web site content in development.

In 2007, the company acquired Tridion, a content management system vendor, and PASS Engineering, developers of PASSOLO software. It bought Trados, a rival translation memory (TM) developer, in 2005.

In 2007, the company acquired Tridion, a content management system vendor, and PASS Engineering, developers of PASSOLO software.

In 2008, it bought Idiom Technologies, a global information system management business.

In December 2009, SDL acquired Fredhopper, a Dutch eCommerce onsite search and navigation, onsite targeting and targeted advertising software vendor.

In January 2016, having undertaken a strategic review, SDL announced the divestment of Fredhopper and Alterian as non-complementary to its new strategy.