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About Us

SANAKO is an established cross-curricular technology solutions vendor to the education and corporate sector, the brand is associated with integrated ICT multimedia platforms that deliver teaching and learning benefits across the curriculum and specialises in multimedia language labs.

As the global leader in language learning solutions, we have over 40 years’ experience in bringing learning solutions to demanding academic and business audiences around the world.

SANAKO headquarters is in Turku, Finland but our team in Bradford are responsible for all UK sales and support and in addition we have a network of authorised local partners across the country. The UK operation offers products and services specifically tailored to the UK market as well as organising various UK specifc events and activities.

The SANAKO Brand

SANAKO was launched in September 2003 to unite the company and its products under one flag. It is more likely that you know us or our products as Tandberg Educational, Teleste or Divace.

SANAKO is an established company with a proven track record and profitable operations - therefore a reliable partner for you in helping accelerate your personal or employees’ professional development and in providing excellent conditions for enjoyable teaching and learning.

SANAKO Key Milestones

1961 First Tandberg Language Lab produced
1961-1979 Tandberg grows to global leader in language labs
1984 Teleste acquires educational division of Tandberg
1991 Teleste produces world’s first language lab with PC based GUI
1996 Teleste produces first virtual recorder in the world
2000 Teleste installs world’s first virtual language lab
2001 Teleste Educational becomes Divace through management buy out
2003 Divace changes its name and launches the new global brand - SANAKO
2006 SANAKO launches Study - a modular software solution for language and ICT classrooms