Bertelsmann : Donates €270,000 and Over 6,000 Books in Larger Gütersloh Space in 2022

Press Launch | Gütersloh, 01/27/2023

Bertelsmann Donates €270,000 and Over 6,000 Books in Larger Gütersloh Space in 2022

• Greater than 200 organizations, associations and initiatives supported in 2022
• Investments of €52 million in Gütersloh
• Workers obtain as much as €3,000 to allay inflation
• Excessive investments deliberate once more in present FY 2023
• Thomas Rabe: “Gütersloh is and stays Bertelsmann’s dwelling.”

Gütersloh, January 27, 2023 – Within the 2022 monetary yr, Bertelsmann donated round €270,000 to greater than 200 organizations, associations, and initiatives within the better Gütersloh area, €20,000 greater than within the earlier yr (2021: €250,000). Moreover, the worldwide media, companies, and schooling firm made donations in form, together with greater than 6,000 books and audiobooks. Shortly earlier than Christmas, €25,000 was donated to the Bielefeld palliative initiative ‘Der Weg nach Hause’ (The Method Dwelling) for the sixteenth time, bringing Bertelsmann’s complete help for the initiative since 2006 to over €400,000.

Bertelsmann as soon as once more invested an eight-digit determine of round €52 million (2021: €85 million) in its native firms and divisions in its hometown Gütersloh. The funds flowed primarily into Arvato Methods and Arvato Provide Chain Options. Photovoltaic modules had been put in on a number of roof areas totaling 46,000 m² on the Arvato web site on Reinhard-Mohn-Strasse. These modules generate about 3.5 million kW/h of electrical energy yearly, one hundred pc of which is consumed on web site. The plant, which value a complete of three million euros, covers the annual power necessities of 1,000 three-person households.

Thomas Rabe, Chairman & CEO of Bertelsmann, stated: “Gütersloh is and stays Bertelsmann’s dwelling. Our world actions in 50 international locations are managed from the Company Heart. Accordingly, Gütersloh is of central significance to the Group. And this isn’t the one purpose we intend to stay engaged right here within the years forward. Bertelsmann is planning additional investments within the eight-digit vary in its firms and divisions on the Gütersloh web site for the present fiscal yr 2023.”

Some 11,000 workers work for Bertelsmann within the better Gütersloh space, greater than at any of the corporate’s different places all over the world. The variety of Bertelsmann workers within the better Gütersloh space has remained fixed over time. In August 2022, 187 new apprentices and twin college students started their vocational coaching at Bertelsmann within the area – greater than ever earlier than. All apprenticeship graduates in 2022 obtained a job supply inside the Group.

In October 2022, Bertelsmann introduced that it will pay its workers inflation compensation bonuses of as much as €3,000. In all, Bertelsmann can pay out an quantity within the eight-figure vary.

In September 2022, one other Bertelsmann Administration Assembly was held on the firm’s headquarters in Gütersloh. Thomas Rabe introduced to greater than 500 of the Group’s prime executives that he intends to attain revenues of €24 billion, EBITDA of €4 billion and web revenue of €2 billion 4 years from now. These targets dovetail with the Group’s ‘Increase’ development plans: €5 billion to €7 billion are to be invested by 2025 to raise Bertelsmann to an excellent larger stage of revenues and earnings. On March 30, 2023, the corporate will announce its financials for 2022.

As a part of the Group’s cultural actions in 2022, two ‘Blue Couch’ literary occasions had been held in Gütersloh with Schlager singer Roland Kaiser and journalist Pinar Atalay in November. Two extra ‘Blue Couch Gütersloh’ occasions are deliberate for the present fiscal yr 2023 as effectively. As well as, two ‘Bertelsmann Boards’ are to be held, at which high-profile company from politics and enterprise are invited to talk on the Bertelsmann Company Heart.

The standard pensioners’ celebration is to be held once more for the primary time on November 20, 2023, after a break because of Covid. Additional particulars might be introduced in the end.

About Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann is a media, companies, and schooling firm that operates in about 50 international locations all over the world. It consists of the leisure group RTL Group, the commerce guide writer Penguin Random Home, the music firm BMG, the service supplier Arvato, the Bertelsmann Printing Group, the Bertelsmann Schooling Group and Bertelsmann Investments, a global community of funds. The corporate has 145,000 workers and generated revenues of €18.7 billion within the 2021 monetary yr. Bertelsmann stands for creativity and entrepreneurship. This mix promotes first-class media content material and revolutionary service options that encourage prospects all over the world. Bertelsmann aspires to attain local weather neutrality by 2030.