Every day sold the publishing house Penguin Random House two million books in more than 100 countries. The Berlin-based BMG owns or manages more than 2.5 million song rights. 105 billion times retrieved 2015, RTL online videos. The investment division is involved worldwide in more than 100 start-ups. – The Bertelsmann Group, which show the figures presented in Berlin on Tuesday, has expanded its media power in the past financial year, which – as much money as never earned – without company sales: more than one billion euros.
“2015 was a very good year for Bertelsmann,” said CEO Thomas Rabe rejoiced. And so to proceed. “Neither me nor my colleagues will in the coming years, boring,” said the 50-year-old, who is at the Bertelsmann-peak since early 2012 Design. The plants that you have set in recent years, now need to be watered. It remained the only crooked image that drew the five-member board of the traditional Bertelsmann Group, which can look back on 180 years of publishing history.
In a broader structure, the Gütersloh company wants to grow faster and be digital. “The new Bertelsmann includes future no longer five, but eight divisions,” Rabe said. In addition to media content derived from RTL, Penguin Random House, Gruner + Jahr and BMG, are the services of Arvato and the printers, the education business and the new division Investments.
RTL has the largest share of Group profit
What sounds like conversion, is actually the conclusion of years of re-orientation and organization. “The implementation of our Strategy is working,” Raven, whose contract was extended in January for another five years until 2021 said. Last year, the profit jumped by more than 90 percent to 1.1 billion euros. Sales increased year on year by 2.8 percent to 17.1 billion euros. The largest share of net income climbed the RTL Group with a profit increase of 21 percent to 789 million euros. The Plus also fell however from as strong, because one year had previously pressed special charges Bertelsmann profit. Also in business operations put the media company significantly: Operating profit climbed in 2015 by 4.7 percent to 2.5 billion euros
Also in the current year looks Thomas Rabe “with some confidence.”. Sales are expected to rise in 2016, operating profitability remain high. 2015 came Bertelsmann on an operating profit margin of 14.5 percent. “In addition, we aim to achieve a net profit of more than one billion euros,” said the CEO. Rabes long-term goal: a profit of three billion euros on sales of 20 billion euros. “Then the group would permanently financially independent,” says the Bertelsmann boss. “This fits with a company that is owned by a foundation and a family.” Bertelsmann is an unlisted company, shareholders are the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Mohn family. The company employs about 117 000 people worldwide. Turn of the millennium, the dispute between the former Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Middelhoff and family via an IPO, the company had plunged into turmoil.
New businesses: education, start-ups, financial services
Since taking office Rabe pushes ahead with the restructuring. Many no longer profitable print shops have been separated, as by the long-established, but no longer lucrative book clubs. The proportion of declining transactions has decreased from 16 to five, expects Rabe ago. Instead, the Group invests in digital startups and has developed digital strategies for established businesses. By investing in online universities and e-learning providers Bertelsmann also focuses on the growing business of online courses and the training of the net.
“We developed an entirely new mindset in terms of digitization,” says Rabe. Just bought Gruner + Jahr Internet forums and web shops. The service subsidiary Arvato is successful with complete solutions for online fashion stores and digital financial services. But the core businesses – books, magazines, TV, and print – are further source of revenue. Example RTL: With half a billion made 2015 Digital sales there, for example, just one-twelfth of. Gruner + Jahr magazines brought new titles to market. At 20 locations Bertelsmann printed 1.6 million tons of paper.
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