Bertelsmann CR Report 2010/2011
Taking acTion corporate Responsibility Report 2010/2011 www.bertelsmann.com/responsibility About this report This Corporate Responsibility (CR) Report aims to provide transparent, comprehensive information to employees, customers, suppliers, journalists, investors and representatives of government agencies and NGOs about how Bertelsmann AG lives up to its corporate responsibility. It shows the key social, environmental and economic challenges associated with our business activities and the strategies we have developed to tackle them. Procedure: To make it easier for our readers to compare our performance with other companies, we follow the latest Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reporting guidelines G3 (GRI index, see p. 132). The report also serves as a Communication on Progress for the United Nations Global Compact, which we joined in October 2008 (see p. 15). This report was prepared under the direction of the Director Corporate Responsibility, in coordination with the relevant Corporate Center departments and the divisions, and approved by the Chairman & CEO of Bertelsmann AG. Data: The reporting period for the key indicators cited in the report is the fiscal year from January 1 to December 31, 2010. The information in this report pertains to the business fields of television and radio (RTL Group), book publishing (Random House), magazine publishing (Gruner + Jahr), and media services (Arvato). Bertelsmann’s club and direct marketing businesses, which previously made up the Direct Group, were dissolved as an independent division on June 30, 2011 following a decision to implement a gradual scale- back that was taken at the start of the year. Since that time, they have been managed under Corporate Investments.
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