Moravia Worldwide Opens its Second Global Production Center in Brno

Moravia Worldwide, a leading globalization solution provider, announced today the opening of its second global production center in Brno, Czech Republic, the base of the company’s worldwide headquarters. This new center, with a total area of 28,000 square feet (2,600 m2), will accommodate an additional 200 localization professionals, and will be the home base for Moravia’s QASight testing and engineering division as well as one of Moravia’s production units. The second production center will add to the capacity of Moravia's existing office space and will raise the total capacity of the company's Brno headquarters to over 400 people.

Brno, Czech Republic (PRWEB) July 28, 2006 -- Moravia Worldwide, a leading globalization solution provider, announced today the opening of its second global production center in Brno, Czech Republic, the base of the company’s worldwide headquarters. This new center, with a total area of 28,000 square feet (2,600 m2), will accommodate an additional 200 localization professionals, and will be the home base for Moravia’s QASight testing and engineering division as well as one of Moravia’s production units. The second production center will add to the capacity of Moravia's existing office space and will raise the total capacity of the company's Brno headquarters to over 400 people.

The modern six-floor building, situated conveniently within walking distance from the main office, and in the vicinity of the city center, was specifically designed to meet the needs of a localization and testing services provider. The office space and the security procedures in place comply with current ISO Security Information standards, and are set to meet or exceed the security expectations of companies that outsource their globalization requirements. Among other features, the building contains some of the latest physical and data security equipment available today.

This development builds on the advantages of the headquarters’ location in the city of Brno. The city's fast-growing IT industry, which includes a number of investments in large-scale IT or service centers from companies such as IBM, Red Hat and Lufthansa, is fueled by the large number of universities in the city, which supply the labor market with a high number of IT graduates and qualified resources. Another advantage is the city’s strategic location not only in the Czech Republic, but also in the European context, with Brno increasingly viewed as a major regional off-shoring or near-shoring center. For the second year in a row, Brno has been selected as Central Europe’s City of the Future, having the best economic potential in Central Europe, by the renowned Financial Times group’s fDi magazine.

“The opening of this second production center in Brno marks a new milestone for our organization,” commented Katerina Forstingerova, CEO of Moravia Worldwide. “The new center will help to accommodate the rapidly growing client base and their requirements for services which we provide in a centralized manner from Brno, or from our production location in Nanjing, China. This includes services such as multilingual project management, testing and engineering,” continued Ms. Forstingerova.

“Our customers, for whom we localize or test their yet-to-be-released products, have extremely high requirements for security – be it facility or information security,” said Arturo Quintero, Chief Corporate Strategist of Moravia Worldwide. “The new center provides for a unique degree of security in our industry, and will help set Moravia Worldwide further apart from other providers in this respect,” added Mr. Quintero.

Later in the year, the company will hold an official ceremony, which will include a number of invited guests and speakers, to celebrate the opening of this state of the art facility -- a milestone not only for Moravia Worldwide, but also for the city and the community.

Moravia's new production center is located at the following address:

Moravia IT, a.s.

Prikop 15/17

602 00 Brno

Czech Republic

About Moravia Worldwide

Moravia Worldwide is a leading globalization solution provider, enabling companies in the information technology, e-learning, life sciences and financial industries to enter global markets with high quality multilingual products. Moravia’s solutions include localization and product testing services, internationalization, multilingual publishing and technical translation. Testing and engineering services are provided by our dedicated QASight business unit. Industry leaders rely on Moravia Worldwide for accurate, on-time and economical localization. Moravia Worldwide maintains global headquarters in the Czech Republic and North American headquarters in California, with local offices and production centers in Japan, China, Latin America, Ireland, USA and throughout Europe. To learn more, please visit www.moraviaworldwide.com.

About QASight

QASight is the dedicated testing and engineering Business Unit of Moravia IT. QASight helps companies release their software and hardware products globally, with its services including globalization and functional testing, automation testing, wireless and security testing or enterprise testing. As part of Moravia IT, QASight has global headquarters in the Czech Republic and North American headquarters in California, and production centers centralized in the Czech Republic and P.R. China. To learn more, please visit www.qasight.com.

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