The Hut Group, Owner of Glossybox, Espa Buys Language Connect

LONDON — The Hut Group is turning polyglot with its latest acquisition. On Tuesday, the beauty tech firm that owns brands including Espa and Glossybox, said it has purchased Language Connect, a language translation and localization services company. Matthew Moulding, founder and chief executive officer of The Hut Group, said his company made “a significant investment which supports our international growth plans, making translation more efficient for our customers around the globe.” The Hut Group is one of the world’s largest online beauty and wellbeing businesses: Its other holdings include Illamasqua, the Australian beauty retailer Skinstore and Lookfantastic.com, the British beauty retailer. He added that the purchase marks “another step in the growth of our proprietary technology platform, THG Ingenuity, following the acquisitions of UK2 and Hangar Seven last year. We expect to make additional investments this year to grow the platform further.” Language Connect was founded in 2003 by Ben and Iwona Taylor, and said its blue-chip customer base includes more than 900 organizations globally, including Thomson Reuters and Twenty-First Century Fox as well as several of the world’s largest market research organizations. It has an international footprint, with offices in London, New York, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Melbourne. THG said it remains committed to the service

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