Case Studies
Don't just take our word for it. The Language Networks across the UK have helped hundreds of companies across the UK to develop or fine-tune their foreign language and cultural strategies. Below, businesses that have profited from understanding foreign languages and cultures share their experiences.
Medical / Veterinary /
Alternative Therapy
Beauty Rooms (Leeds) / Christine Clarke Clinic (Sheffield)
Learning languages can prove useful throughout your life and is not exclusively for those organisations that plan to export. This study features two small businesses who have found language learning to be of benefit for them.
(Case studies open on RLN Yorkshire & The Humber website)
Body Clock Health Care Ltd (East London)
(68 kb pdf)
Body Clock, an East London company supplying electronic pain relief devices, is an excellent example of a small business embracing international markets with as much vigour as their home markets.
Dorwest Herbs (Bridport, Dorset)
Dorwest Herbs is acknowledged as the authoritative company in the field of veterinary herbal medicine, and exports its range to 18 countries worldwide.
Medi-Direct (Nottingham)
(64 kb pdf document)
The company believes that speaking its customer's language means that there is no hindrance in accessing markets where English is not the mother tongue.
UK Sire Services
(Dartington, Devon)
UK Sire Services is a bull stud, exporting bull semen to farmers in the UK and overseas. The company decided to translate their materials into several languages to appeal to an international market.
