Need more than translation? Perhaps you need text creation

Some communication needs go further than translation – sometimes the job warrants more than just changing the words from one language to another. The text you need may have to be created.

Clear translation, effective writing
To compliment its superior language skills, CLS has developed a formidable copywriting service that will help you deliver your message effectively. CLS’s pool of writers includes top-flight journalists, savvy investment writers, and award-winning advertising creatives.

These professionals are on call to work with you to generate copy that will get your message across.

CLS can provide you with a comprehensive copywriting service, turning your kernel of thought, rough notes, or document brief into high-grade copy. We have comprehensive experience working with clients to produce a range of different types of copy:

• Brochures, factsheets & case studies
• Ghost-written features
• Press releases
• Corporate magazines
• Advertising copy, Direct marketing literature
• Websites - content, marketing copy, instructions, FAQs etc.
• Newsletters
• Equity notes
• Investor relations material, AGM documentation, Annual Reports
• Speeches
• Sales letters, other letters & emails
• User guides & manuals
• Tender documentation
• Reports, proposals, scripts, notices & other documents.

I can write, I just don’t have the time
Investment analysts, fund managers, and financial professionals who are pressed for time can rely on our experienced investment writers to ghostwrite their equity notes, briefings or fact sheets in less time than it would take them to do it themselves, and to a quality suitable for the Financial Times, Handelsblatt, or Les Echos.

As well as our standard quality control processes, CLS also runs all financial copy through an FSA compliance procedure designed to ensure documentation complies with the UK Regulator’s Treating Customers Fairly policy.

Is it journalese or good journalism?
The worlds of journalism, advertising, the Web, and public speaking all have their own nuances and styles that differ vastly from common language usage. They also have their own pitfalls. What may look like a well-written magazine feature in one language, may look pompous or even amateur in another. When you’re trying to get your message across in another language, you need to be aware of this as much as you are other linguistic differences.

We know it works in the States, but will it work in the UK
American companies looking to re-engineer their communications or marketing material for local markets, and want more than just a direct translation, can work with writers fluent not just in the target language, but the local media as well.

European and Asian companies can work with professional writers to come up with marketing and sales copy that will get their message across in a way that makes readers take notice.

We need to localize our Web Site for different markets
CLS copywriters have comprehensive experience writing for the Web. They understand how to incorporate new text into current architecture and navigation to maximum effect, or they are able to work with information architects to help build you sharp, easy to read corporate sites.

We want a corporate magazine but have no time to write it
Corporate magazines are a great marketing tool but they’re time consuming to put together. Also, if they’re not done to a high standard, they may well put the customer off, rather than endear them to your company. CLS can manage the entire publication process for your corporate magazine – from planning and writing the editorial, to managing the design, layout and printing. Working with CLS means working with publishing professionals with years of commercial magazine management experience.

Want your magazine in multiple languages? CLS won’t just write the editorial in one language and give you a literal translation for the second language. We spend time planning the editorial so that it reads well and is entertaining for all readers, not just half of them.

Whatever your communication needs, CLS will work with you to develop effective copy that will get your message read.