1975 Giuseppe Lanzillotta, a certified translator, establishes the Lanzillotta & Partner translation office in Düsseldorf together with Heinz Goldschmidt, a mechanical engineer. The company is particularly characterised by its innovative technical equipment and modus operandi, which are constantly pointing the way ahead for the entire industry.

1980 Lanzillotta & Partner has established itself as a supplier of choice with numerous industrial enterprises in the greater Düsseldorf area. Our clients include Mannesmann Demag and the DSD Group.

1982 Deutsche Messe AG chooses Lanzillotta & Partner to publish the glossaries of universally known trade fairs (e.g. CeBIT and Hannover-Messe) every year in many different languages.

1992 Lanzillotta & Partner starts localising IT products. Together with experienced partners in the localisation industry, we implement several large-scale software projects in up to 7 target languages, for clients such as Bull Computer.

1999 Frank Lanzillotta joins his father in managing the company which has meanwhile been renamed L & P Lanzillotta GmbH. During this phase his task, as a member of the next generation, is to get the company geared up for the multimedia society of the future.

2001 We found Lanzillotta Translations USA in Miami which brings us closer to our American clients and personnel. Bernard Carpenter, an experienced German-American, orients our offering to the needs of the American market.

2002 Frank Lanzillotta steps up the company’s modernisation and introduces a comprehensive management information system. The system, originally used in inventory management, is specially modified to suit our needs as a translation company and is unique in this regard.

2003 L & P Lanzillotta GmbH is named by ERCO as its exclusive strategic partner for translations and multilingual DTP. A dedicated team of in-house project managers and 24 specialist translators and proofreaders in 10 countries delivers comprehensive solutions to ERCO, including the localisation of ERCO’s Light Scout, the company’s groundbreaking website (also see Projects).

2004 We move to a large office directly overlooking the Rhine and expand our team in the areas of project management, desktop publishing and translation memory management. The company’s name is changed to “Lanzillotta Translations GmbH”. The company founder, Giuseppe Lanzillotta, retires from daily business and hands over the sole management to Frank Lanzillotta.

2005 We establish Lanzillotta Translations UK in London. During our first year of operations in the United Kingdom, we acquire the press department of the British Fortune 500 company Johnson Controls as a client.

2007 The company founder, Giuseppe Lanzillotta, sadly passes away. With his farsightedness, persistent optimism and his love of language, his legacy was to leave behind a company which is ideally placed in the market, entirely self-financed, and which stands at the cutting edge of technology – the perfect prerequisites for continued healthy growth.

2008 Together with Markus Massísimo, Frank Lanzillotta lays the foundation of Lanzillotta Localizations, which specialises in Localisation and Global Content Management for vertical industries. Markus Massísimo, who founded his first localisation company in Paris in 1989 and headed up our localisation projects for Bull Computer and Baan from 1992, brings over 20 years of localisation experience to the company, as well as a worldwide network of contacts.