UK businesses are losing out on international contracts worth nearly £750 million a year by not speaking foreign languages fluently, research by International Customer Loyalty Programmes found.
It questioned 950 companies in mainland Europe and found that more than 76 per cent had decided not to employ a UK company for a pan-European account because of its inability to speak their language.
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