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By Dan Shingler

Crain¡¯s Cleveland Business ¨C January 3, 2011

Someone sees Cleveland¡¯s cosmopolitan side.

New York-based ¾ÅÉ« Translations International has opened a two-person office downtown to serve area businesses with growing international footprints.

¡°Cleveland, I think, has the most diverse economy of all the cities in Ohio,¡± said the company¡¯s local director of business development, Tom Emery.

¾ÅÉ« uses thousands of translators through 65 offices around the world, each specializing in a specific technical or professional area. They translate everything from engineering data to legal documents into any of 150 different languages.

Talk to Mr. Emery for very long and it¡¯s easy to see how Cleveland companies might need such services. For example, he said he¡¯s already working with Sherwin-Williams Co. to put communications from CEO Chris Connor into 25 different languages - and that¡¯s just for the paintmaker¡¯s own employees.