At Brands and Borders we go much further than just brand disaster checking. Our focus is on building and maintaining long term, successful relationships with our clients, by delivering the most cost-effective linguistic services.
To help deliver our services and maintain our reputation for excellence, we have over 1,000 experienced, native and bilingual respondents.
Peter has been in the language industry for nearly 25 years. In 1994 he started Transearch one of the earliest brand checking Companies which has grown now in the guise of Brands and Borders- to a major force in the provision of International brand checking and validation services. Peter has served as a Board member of ELIA, is a current member of the Association of Translation Companies and is currently the CEO of TransTrans Ltd, the Market Research Translation specialists, the parent organisation of Brands and Borders. He lives near Cambridge with UK offices there and in London.
Mark has been working in the Translations and linguistic checking industry for 4 years, having previously worked for 1 year as a linguistic brand name checker. Before joining the industry, he worked as an English language teacher in Krakow, Poland for 11 years. He is proud of his Welsh roots and shares his time working and living in both his hometown Cardiff and Krakow. He enjoys travelling and photography in his free time. He enjoys his work - as it is always diverse, challenging and allows him to meet and assist clients and translators from all over the world. Mark is based in Krakow, Poland.
Ralph has crossed a few borders during his expatriate lifetime. Born in Hamburg/Germany in 1964, he spent his childhood in Nigeria, was educated in the UK (school in SE England and university in Scotland) and worked in the City and on management consultancy projects in Germany, Switzerland and the Middle East. In 1995 he moved to Germany to continue his work in the language industry. In 2004 Ralph left to set up his own business in the translation industry, which has since merged with Brands & Borders, and Trans Trans Ltd. He lives near Frankfurt, Germany.
