Why you should translate your food and beverage products

Great tasting food and drink are almost like a language in itself, as it’s universally enjoyed and brings family, friends, and strangers together to indulge their tastebuds, which is why food products have huge potential to reach the global market. However, to get noticed and accepted in different countries and cultures, you must invest in professional beverage translation and food translation. Whether you’re building a marketing campaign, designing product labels, or updating your eCommerce website, reliable translations are needed to engage and attract people from across the world.

When using a professional linguist to translate your food and beverage, such as the linguists at Talking Heads, you will feel assured your products will not lose their brand image or voice whilst being translated. Although, whilst our team translate, we also will look out for cultural appropriation. Food is embedded into every culture and has a huge social significance, so conducting cultural checks for your products is crucial for their success, at Talking Heads we adapt our food and beverage translation so that it is received in the intended way.

Food Label Translation Services for Food Companies

Food label translation is not only important to help your product reach a higher turnover, but it accurate and reliable label translation is crucial for health and safety. We are proud of the many businesses we have helped provide label translation for and know exactly the difficulties companies face when starting out with their global vision. When you translate your food and beverage you must consider the safety of your customers. Because of the immensely different food regulations across the globe, we developed our bespoke services to ensure no legal requirements are missed, meeting every single one, and provided accurate food and drink label translations for all international markets.

At Talking Heads, we also offer multilingual typesetting for food translation. If you’re designing a product label, marketing campaign or POS materials, the translation goes beyond the words on the page, you must consider the composition. For example, some languages read from the left, have different punctuation and different capitalisation rules. To successfully localise your food product there are many forms of food translation to consider, but our professional team will help every step of the way.

How Do We Handle Product Translation?

It’s not easy, but during our two decades of existence, we have the experience to make it look that way, assembling a team of over 11,000 linguists worldwide to give us fantastic reach and insight into every culture and country you can think of. Our translation specialists are trained to the latest guidelines and working alongside comprehensive technology, provide excellent and compliant food and drink translation.

Working closely with our legal partners, we guarantee that every food label translation meets strict guidelines, and we continuously update and work with you to build your brand dictionary of terms to maintain outstanding quality. Translation is our passion, and alongside this, we want to be passionate about your brand and products too. This way we’ll ensure no matter the size of your company, small or large, we will be with you every step of the way.

Striving for Label Translation Perfection

We hope our passion for what we do is apparent, with many companies already experiencing this first hand. Trusted by some of the world’s biggest food and drink brands, we understand what is needed, and as we follow the ISO 1700:2015 standard, you’ll be sure your trust is not misplaced. We offer flexibility as we understand some projects are time sensitive and we will adjust to any deadlines you currently need to meet.

We’ll help make a dramatic difference to successfully integrate food label translation and localisation into your food and drink products. Our linguists are not only experts in every language in the world, but you will also work with a team that has experience in the food and drink sector, meaning they are familiar with food and drink terminology.

We look forward to hearing from you on any queries you may have regarding our food and beverage translation. Contact us today by telephone, email or by filling out our online enquiry form.

Nutrition Translate Services – Take Your Brand Global

At Talking Heads, we provide our clients with high-quality nutrition translation services, ensuring accurate translations for vitamins, supplements, whole foods and vegan, vegetarian and organic products. We truly understand the importance of accuracy; one mistake through poor translation could result in serious consequences for consumers and your brand, so we ensure that all of our translations are clear and precise so that they are understood by your customer base across the globe.

When we translate nutrition-based products, this covers everything from health bars to powders and drinks. We ensure that the exact meaning of these products is translated so that there is no confusion, providing trusted health, nutrition and medical translation services. We are dedicated to working with our clients to help them sell their products around the world knowing that what they are selling is stated clearly on the packaging, website and brochure in whichever language, tone and style is necessary.

We understand that health translation for products that help with specifics such as weight loss, an increase in energy and even mass gain, need to be written with expert precision. That’s why our fluent translators here at Talking Heads will provide exactly that; translation by native speakers – there is no better way to get your message across as precisely as possible.

To ensure consistency across all of the products in each language, the same members of our expert team will produce each translated piece on your brand’s behalf. Whether for supplement or nutrition translation, health products or any part of your branding, trust us to provide an expert service that focuses on ensuring your brand gets its message across, leading the way globally. We will ensure that your tone-of-voice is followed at all times.

Benefits Of Our Health & Nutrition Translation Services

There is no margin for error when it comes to translation, and that’s why we set high standards to deliver for our clients on every project. With our ample experience across a wide range of industries and languages, you can be sure that your products will reach as many different countries with our help, without the worry of poor attention to detail that you may find with other services. Having achieved excellent health translation for some of the biggest names involved with health and fitness, you and your company will benefit from the expertise and knowledge that we have gained and built on since our founding.

Here at Talking Heads, we don’t only translate your products into different languages to make them readable; we go one step further and ensure that our health and nutrition translations replicate the tone of voice that you want to portray for your brand, regardless of the language. As previously mentioned, we work hard to guarantee consistency across our work in each language. Your brand’s style and tone will be kept consistent and strong across the globe with our expertise and eye for detail.

Our specialised team of native speakers and linguists will work closely with you to make sure that all of your specifications are met on time and to an exceptionally high standard. We want to partner with you to seamlessly maintain your excellent reputation and expertise across the globe, by writing fluent translations for your services, products and company. Reach out today and put your trust in us to deliver flawless nutrition and health translation services that put your brand on the map, becoming the go-to choice for customers around the world. 

Want to find out more about our professional, friendly team and how we’ll help your business with translation? Don’t hesitate to contact Talking Heads, today. Learn more about our face to face interpreting and remote interpreting services too, providing your business with even more solutions to make communicating globally effortless.

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FAQs

What types of health information translations do you help with?

There’s little that we cannot help with, so whatever your business specialises in, we’ll provide an excellent service that meets your unique requirements. From product labels to dietary supplement descriptions, health guides and promotional materials for your website to technical documents. Anything that your brand needs expertly translated for a particular global market, whether it’s for regulatory compliance or market expansion, our health and nutrition translation services will cover them in full.

How do you ensure the accuracy of translations?

Accuracy is a number one priority in health and nutrition translations. That’s why our global network of linguists, translators and interpreters are not only language experts but are native speakers, so no matter the country you are targeting with your products and services, you’ll have a natural, highly accurate local translation that meets our quality standards. All translations undergo a rigorous quality control process (following ISO 17100:2015 Translation Services criteria). This is to ensure that every detail is correctly interpreted and compliant with industry standards.

Do you handle urgent translation requests for health and nutrition brands?

We understand that some translation needs will be more urgent than others, so please contact us to discuss your specific timeline requirements. We work quickly and accurately to accommodate your specific needs with health information translations, with some projects varying in length compared to others. Please see our full translation process to understand how we work, and if you have any questions, please contact us today.

Are you able to help with other translation services?

We are a full service LSP (Languages Services Provider), meaning there are many different services available when it comes to taking your brand global. As well as product and website translations, we also offer interpreting both face-to-face and remotely, depending on your requirements. We also offer subtitle, voiceover and audio transcription if this is something you need expert help with. We’re a family-run business that has helped businesses across multiple sectors improve global performance, so contact us today with your specific requirements for a quote.