My name is Jack Lester and I'm here to talk about the company I originally founded in nineteen seventy-two, Hinde Instruments.
我叫杰克·萊斯,我來此是想說說我在1972年成立的公司Hinde Instruments。
Today, the company, with factories in Nevada and Texas and its headquarters in California, is one of the world's largest manufacturers of telescopes.
這家公司在內華達和德克薩斯州均設有工廠,其總部位于加利福尼亞,如今它是世界最大的望遠鏡制造商之一。
Sales have grown at a rate of thirty-six per cent for the last ten years and in two thousand and two, reached one hundred and twenty-six million dollars.
在過去十年中,銷售增長率為36%,并于2002年達到了1.26億美元。
But this hasn't always been the case. In fact, in nineteen ninety-one, the threat of bankruptcy was hanging over the company.
但情況并非一直如此。事實上,在1991年,破產的威脅籠罩著公司。