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Moravia IT, an RWS company, is a company based in Brno, Czech Republic, that provides translation, localization (web, software, and multimedia), testing and engineering, and global digital marketing services. It has around 1,500 employees worldwide and 9 offices across the US, Ireland, Japan, China, Argentina, Hungary, and Czech Republic. The legal entity name is Moravia IT s.r.o. Moravia is wholly owned by RWS Holdings plc. The company has three large regional production centers: in Brno (Czech Republic), Nanjing (China), and Rosario (Argentina). These are supported by a global network of translators and translation partners.

History
Moravia IT was founded in 1990 by life-long translators Eva and Rudolf Forstinger shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall in Germany and the Velvet Revolution in then Czechoslovakia, which brought changes in the country that allowed private businesses. Moravia IT began as a translation agency providing translation of technical documentation, sworn translations, and conference interpreting. By 2000, most of the revenues were coming from specialized translation, software localization, and testing services. The company also focused on providing language services primarily into Central and Eastern European languages, and had established operations in Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia. In 2001, the company opened its first US office (now located in Thousand Oaks, California), followed by an office in Dublin, Ireland in 2002. Soon afterwards, a presence in Nanjing, China was established. In 2004, they opened an office in Tokyo, and in 2006, the company opened a new regional operations center in Latin America in Rosario, Argentina. In the same year, an additional office in North America, in Kirkland, Washington, was opened. In February 2016, a third US office in Monterey, CA, was formed, to supply US-based linguistic and testing services. Moravia is a founding member of both TAUS Data Association (TDA) and OASIS XLIFF Technical Committee, as well as a key member of the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA). The company is a Gold Sponsor of Translators without Borders.