About AAC Global

Your globalization services partner

AAC Global provides a new brand of globalization services. We combine different forms of training and communication with multilingual and multicultural expertise to best support our customers' needs and success in global business environments.

AAC Global Oy was established in 1969 in order to provide language training services for Finnish companies. Today, we are the leading globalization services company in the Nordic countries. Our service portfolio comprises language training, communication skills training, management and leadership training, translation, editing and localization services, terminology management solutions, documentation and consultation services.

AAC Global has eight offices in Finland, two in Sweden and local offices in Denmark, Norway, Russia, the UK and China . In August 2008, we acquired Interverbum, a leading language service company in the Nordic markets. Today, AAC Global employs close to 500 dedicated professionals. In 2006, the company joined Sanoma Group, the leading media group in the Nordic region and merged with the Sanoma Learning and Literature Division.

What services do we offer you and your company?

Product launches, marketing campaigns, strategy presentations, and change management - a few examples of situations where your company has important information that needs to be communicated to a large number of people. AAC Global will help you reach out with precise, consistant and relevant information targeted at most markets, demographics and language areas..

Validated terminology and common communication practices are important tools for standardizing our customers' oral and written communication. By optimizing communication processes - for instance, by adhering to approved terminology and common guidelines - the quality of any message due to be transmitted in several languages will increase infinitely. At the same time, this accelerates comprehension with the target demographic. Our terminology management system allows you to collect, structure and publish language information specific to your company and industry.Authorized users can access terms at any time and in any location. This facilitates the spread and use of appropriate terminology, thereby improving the consistency and quality of your company's internal and external communication.

Hiring AAC Global to localize your entire marketing process (including products and supporting networks) ensures efficiency, direct cost savings and a speedier entrance to the market.

Are you managing your language capital?

Rapidly expanding companies require more than individual translation services or language courses. Language service products have to be comprehensive, diverse and cost efficient.

AAC Global offers a wide selection of services designed to facilitate multilingual communication: translation, editing, conference interpreting, and software, multimedia and web localization. We also offer process and technology consulting, training planning and coordination services, multicultural coaching, and language and communication skills training.

The core of the multilingual approach is built on terminology, or language capital in a crystallized form. One of AAC's areas of expertise is in collecting and processing key terminology for use in training and translations. We have amassed significant experience in launching products in several languages simultaneously, whether it be websites, software ormarketing materials. The road to a successful launch is a conscious process that begins at your end, in the early phases of development. If you allow us to accompany you from the start, we will help you avoid common problems like those encountered as a result of update requirements, re-formatting, and even the more general problems associated with multilingual communication.

Management & Board

Management Team:

Juhani Pääkkönen, CEO
Mika Perttilä, VP, Sales
Jonas Dahlqvist, VP, Strategic Marketing
Heikki Siltala, VP, Competence Development Business
Mikael Makkonen, VP, Translation & Localization Business
Peter Lindeberg, Financial Director

Board of Directors:

Jacques Eijkens, Chairman, CEO Sanoma Learning
Jyri Ahti, CSO, Sanoma Learning
Karel Das, CFO, Sanoma Learning