About us
The VNR publishing group is a family-owned business founded in 1975. It is our mission to ensure our customers’ success. Through actionable, expert knowledge, we help our customers to be more successful in both their personal as well as their professional lives. We are the 8th largest special interest publishers in Germany. While our headquarters are in Bonn, our approach is international.
We are entrepreneurs – What makes us special is our entrepreneurial approach at all levels of the organization. Every team member thinks, acts and plans as if they were an entrepreneur. This spirit enables us to deliver real customer success.
VNR at a glance:
- Family-owned business since 1975
- Founded by Norman Rentrop
- Approx. 600 employees
- Average employee age is 35.7
- Informal work culture
- 155 million euros annual turnover (2022)
- 8th largest specialist publisher in Germany
- Operates in 7 countries
- Headquarters: Bonn-Bad Godesberg
Our companies
We, the VNR publishing group, offer publishing content and services to ensure customer success. Digital expertise and workflow solutions for our customers are developed at VNR Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG (Bonn, D), Financial Media Corporation (Jacksonville, USA) and Agora Business Publications (Manchester, UK). We offer our own marketing and fulfillment systems to external customers through platform X GmbH & Co. KG.
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Key Facts about us
We are entrepreneurs
Every team member thinks and acts as an entrepreneur inside the organization. They make customer-centric decisions, implement them quickly and take ownership. They make these decisions in line with the overall company strategy, are proactive and ensure our long-term success.
To empower entrepreneurs, our processes and systems are designed to enable independent decision making and support implementation. Our career development programme aims to find, train and develop entrepreneurs so that every individual can be their very best.