Bowers and Wilkins is a well respected and longstanding manufacturer of loudspeakers. Based in Worthing, West Sussex, Bowers & Wilkins exports its products worldwide. Its Nautilus product, launched in 1993 after 5 years’ development, has been described as “possibly the best loudspeaker money can buy”.

Karyn Perry, Marketing Operations Manager at Bowers & Wilkins with Peter Hansen, Senior European DTP Operator

Roevin is proud to have been Bowers & Wilkins’ main supplier of multi-language DTP services for almost ten years. Most Bowers & Wilkins literature is translated into about a dozen languages, including Russian, Greek, Chinese and Japanese. In addition to typesetting and proofreading translations of user manuals and brochures received from the Bowers & Wilkins units abroad, Roevin provides Bowers & Wilkins with a complete project management package, liaising directly with overseas units and Bowers & Wilkins’s head office. After compiling the English documentation (often collating various old manuals) Roevin’s project manager will request translation of any new text, as well as implementing amendments and processing queries from Bowers & Wilkins’s local contacts.

We are happy that Roevin handle the complete product management of our brochures and owners’ manuals from English text to final layout, translated into 15 different languages, freeing valuable in-house resources
Mike Gough, Bowers & Wilkins Loudspeakers Ltd

Initial requests for new manuals or brochures come to Roevin from Bowers & Wilkins’s marketing department but thereafter Roevin liaises directly with overseas distributors ensuring that any final amendments and the sign off are handled as efficiently as possible, critical when the deadline is fast approaching! Because of the highly technical nature of the texts involved, every manual and brochure undergoes a thorough checking process, and once approved, Roevin delivers print-ready files.

As well as undertaking desktop publishing for Bowers & Wilkins, Roevin has also been requested to undertake desktop publishing for Rotel and Classe, a high-end Canadian audio manufacturer, whose products are sold through Bowers & Wilkins’s worldwide network of distributors.