Our approach | Mondadori

We are a publishing house with more than 100 years of history. We have always carried out our publishing work with passion, an ability to champion new tastes and trends, and a strong desire to innovate.

Throughout its life, Mondadori has been a place of opportunities for reading and development, entertainment and enrichment; an open, welcoming and informal home with room for everyone; a home that embraces many different approaches to culture, without discrimination or prejudice.

Our constant attention to stakeholders began before the concept of sustainability existed: the strong bond between the publishing house and its authors and readers, employees and partners, shareholders, suppliers and civil society has guided our journey and driven the Group’s development.

We therefore feel we have a duty to take responsibility not only for our financial results but also for the social and environmental impacts of our business activities.

We want to keep on growing, because we have a responsibility towards a lot of people – the people who invest in us and expect a return on their investment; the people who work for us and want to grow with us; the people who look to us as customers for products and services of excellence, innovation, and value.

The Mondadori Group's sustainability policy

We direct our actions and decisions towards long-term value creation. We pursue this objective by working in accordance with the following principles regarding economic, social and environmental sustainability:

To ensure that our customers benefit from innovative and valuable products.
Actively promote a culture that is accessible to all, with the awareness that the right to quality information and education is an essential element for the development and growth of a country.
Giving voice to different points of view, rewarding originality and plurality of thought and ensuring respect for freedom of expression in the process of developing the editorial product.
Investing in the professional development of our people, enhancing their talent and encouraging them to be creative and enterprising.
Create a safe working environment for our employees and collaborators that offers equal opportunities for personal and professional achievement and expression.
Respect and protect the surrounding environment through responsible use of natural resources and the main energy carriers, reduction of polluting and climate-changing emissions, careful waste management and awareness of customers and suppliers on environmental sustainability issues.

Our business model revolves around our core operations – books, retail, and magazines, as identified through the Mondadori Group transformation process from 2013 to 2015.

Our core markets in Italy are trade and educational publishing, book retail and print and online magazine publishing. We are also active in the organisation of art exhibitions, the management of archaeological and museum sites and the publication of art catalogues and illustrated books, the latter also for the international market.

The variety and completeness of our activities, entirely focused on the publishing sector, make the Mondadori Group a unique case in the Italian publishing scene.

The concentration of our activities in the book sector, thanks to the combined strength of the Group’s publishing houses and the network of bookshops throughout Italy, is the main lever in the creation of value and guarantees the economic stability of the company. This allows us to continue to invest and produce in the cultural sector, contributing to the social growth of the country.

Our real and financial capital is what makes the Group’s operations possible, including financial resources, raw materials, infrastructure, and finished goods. Just as essential, however, is our intangible capital, both inside and outside the organisation. Our intangible capital includes:

_social and relational capital – all the relationships the Mondadori Group has built, and which it works to maintain and expand, through its business activities;

_intellectual capital – all the intangible, yet essential, assets that go into the creation of our products and services, including ideas and projects, copyright, our brands, and the reputation we have built over the years;

_human capital – the skills, abilities, and the experience of our people.

Alongside the products and services we provide, our business activities have an impact on the world outside our organisation. Those impacts may be:

_potentially negative, such as the emissions produced by the consumption and transformation of raw materials, or

_potentially positive, such as the value we distribute to our various stakeholders, but also intangible in nature, such as the satisfaction of our customers and of our human resources.