At TextMaster, our goal is to help business to accelerate their international growth by giving them a whole new way to handle their translations.

Over the last few years, our goal has been to make translation more streamlined, which has also meant that we make our service available to users in a way that’s easier for them, whether it’s through our online platform, plugins for Magento or WordPress, or various partners. Today, we’re excited to announce our latest integration with the localization platform locize.com.

Created in 2012 in Nigeria by Sacha Poignonnec and Jérémy Hodara, Jumia was able to become the ecommerce leader in Africa in just 4 years. With record growth, it has seen sales multiplied by 5 in the last two years. Today, Jumia is active in 12 African countries, employees 1800 people and has delivered over 1.6 million orders in 2015.

There are over 7000 languages used around the world, with English having the most native speakers around the world, followed by Chinese and Spanish. Today, English also takes top online, as it was the original language when the Internet was created and is still the main language for developers. Let’s not forget that 30 years ago, it was impossible to use letters with accents or non-Latin characters.

China, which represents 13.3% of global GDP, is the world leader in export and the top economic powerhouse. According to the IMF, it has been surpassing the US in terms of GDP and purchasing power since 2014. For the last 30 years, China has been experiencing wave after wave of reforms that encourage foreign investment and export, resulting in annual growth rates of almost 10%.