From innovative technology and global locations to 50 years of experience – learn about the many facets of our company.
From innovative technology and global locations to 50 years of experience – learn about the many facets of our company.
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The KERN Group
More than just a language service provider – KERN is a global network of expertise, innovation, and partnership. For over 50 years, we have been connecting people, cultures, and markets through professional language services. In the KERN Worlds, you can find out everything about our company, our values, our locations, and the people who make KERN what it is every day. Discover what drives us and how we are shaping the future of global communication.
Innovation based on tradition
As a successful family business with over 50 years of history and a presence in over 50 locations and branches worldwide, the KERN Group is always available to provide you with its foreign language services, wherever you are.
The KERN Group’s development and innovation group focuses on the integration of translation tools, software solutions, and digital media. The following development work has already been completed:
- Custom portal solution
- Machine translation solution
- E-learning solutions
- Wiki intranet (search and information solution)
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What drives us
In this age of global communication, our vision is to provide our customers with foreign-language works and services of the highest quality. To meet the challenges of a changing world, we are constantly developing our services and pursuing a healthy, sustainable growth strategy. Our structures are therefore customer-friendly, flexible, and future-oriented.
We think and act in a customer-oriented manner. Long-term relationships with customers, employees, and partners are more important to us than short-term success.
Absolute customer satisfaction is our goal. We set the highest quality standards through certified processes, state-of-the-art technology, and continuous improvement.
We are constantly developing our processes and tools. Together with customers and technology partners, we create innovative solutions for tomorrow's communication.
Keeping promises and protecting data – at KERN, the two are inseparable. Our certified processes guarantee the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your information.
Our team
Qualified and motivated employees are one of the keys to the success of the KERN Group, because it is they who make a significant contribution to customer satisfaction through their work. Their expertise, motivation and performance enable the KERN Group to achieve its corporate goals.
In addition to training and experience in their respective fields, our team is distinguished by its additional knowledge in the areas of economics, technology, law, science and finance. Their expertise and reliability contribute significantly to the strength of the KERN Group.
- Specialist translators, language mediators, and editors
- Terminologists and linguists
- Trainers and lecturers
- Interpreters and speakers
- Engineers and technical editors
- Web specialists and programmers, as well as
- Graphic designers and DTP specialists
Become part of the KERN team
At KERN, you can combine international perspectives with a family-like corporate culture. Work on exciting projects in a dynamic team and help shape the future of global communication.
With over 50 locations worldwide, we offer a wide range of career opportunities in translation, technology, project management, and more. Become part of a team that has been combining excellence and innovation for over 50 years.
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KERN History
For over 50 years, the KERN Group has been growing alongside its customers from all industries, rising to the challenges of internationalization. While the focus of its business activities in the early 1970s was still on foreign-language print products and translations, KERN now offers a full range of services for technical translation, interpreting, language training, terminology and translation memory management, software and website localization, multilingual desktop publishing, as well as consulting and training in these areas.
KERN GmbH founded by Manfred and Birte R. Kern. Company headquarters in Frankfurt am Main. Main areas of business: foreign language marketing and print products, translation and interpreting.
Opening of the first branch in Düsseldorf. Expansion of services to include the rental of interpreting equipment and foreign language teaching. Today, the KERN Group operates in over 50 locations worldwide.
Founding of the first international subsidiary in Paris (KERN SARL, Traduction et Interprétation).
The KERN & Partner Werbeagentur GmbH assumes responsibility for the development of foreign language advertising materials as well as multilingual desktop publishing.
Founding of KERN Corp., Global Language Services, headquartered in New York.
Founding of the subsidiary KERN UK Ltd., Global Language Services in London.
Founding of KERN Ltd., Global Language Services, based in Hong Kong.
Founding of the subsidiary KERN B.V., Vertaal- en tolkservice in Amsterdam.
Renaming of KERN GmbH to KERN AG, Sprachendienste (KERN Global Language Services). First use of translation and terminology management tools, now server-bound installations of Across and SDL.
Founding of KERN AG IKL Business Language Training & Co. KG through the integration of IKL Business Language Training GmbH (today KERN Training). Consolidation of all Frankfurt offices and classroom facilities at current headquarters at Kurfürstenstraße 1 in Frankfurt am Main.
The self-developed, customer-specific translation and terminology management portals clicktranslate™ and term4client™ are established.
Certification of KERN AG IKL Business Language Training by TÜV Hessen, Accreditation and Approval Ordinance – Employment Promotion, as an approved training provider in accordance with SGB III. The lingoscore™ language test for companies is developed.
The customized, browser-based translation management portal portal4client™ is launched on the market.
Foundation of KERN Austria GmbH with headquarters in Vienna.
Expansion of the service portfolio to include technical documentation.
Foundation of KERN Polska s.p. z.o.o. with headquarters in Warsaw.
Expansion of foreign language teaching in Austria through the integration of the CEF Institute into KERN Austria GmbH.
Foundation of KERN Services GmbH.
Acquisition of translingua KG in Austria and integration into KERN Austria GmbH.
Development of the API4client™ interface.
Development of proprietary machine translation software MT4client™.
Further development of AI solutions.
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