Success through diversity

Equal opportunity for all – no matter who you are. This right applies to all Bertelsmann locations worldwide and is firmly anchored in our core values.

Since the 1960s, Bertelsmann has operated across countries and continents in a wide range of languages and cultures. Today our companies do business in more than 50 countries around the world. In Germany alone, there are employees from 94 different countries. Diversity and differences are commonplace for us — a natural part of our work, and an enduring foundation of our success. The people who work for Bertelsmann are as different and diverse as the markets in which Bertelsmann does business. Respect for each individual employee demands that ethnic background, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation and disabilities are of no consequence in our company.

At home in the world

This diversity also applies to our customers, who use our company’s media, products and services. The local orientation of our businesses, with local managing directors bearing full entrepreneurial responsibility for their companies, is an important element in living up to this diversity. This leads to the creation of media products in completely different forms and with completely different content in the many hundreds of Bertelsmann companies around the world. They are driven by what our customers in a given place wish to read, hear or learn. Out of respect for traditions and cultural values, our content reflects a diversity of viewpoints and opinions.