People, families, nations, and, of course, companies have their histories. The history of arvato AG and of arvato services as a part of that history began nearly 200 years ago, when Carl Bertelsmann founded a lithographic printing business in Gütersloh. That business became the basis for development of a business enterprise that has grown into the Bertelsmann unit with the largest number of employees. Just as the history of individual people and entire nations is expressed in certain characteristics and features, our company has been marked for generations by service to the customer.

Today we can say: The idea of service is in our genes – especially in regard to print products. What began with the printing and distribution of books and other print products for Bertelsmann’s own publishing operations expanded into a service for other companies. In this way, we were born in 1964, we began to grow, and we continue to expand into new business areas and sectors.