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Cultural Diversity

161 nationalities in one company: a global perspective is in our DNA and makes our cooperative strong. By working together across national and cultural boundaries, we – as a company, but also as individual employees – take advantage of our full potential in a diverse, colourful world.

The employees are committed to helping with communication problems.

Ibrahim Dourra Maiga, HR expert for integration of REWE Region South

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Ibrahim Dourra Maiga, HR expert for integration of REWE Region South

Successful thanks to diversity.

As an international company, our employees hail from 161 different nations.

Equal opportunities for everyone

With the ‘Förderpenny’, we have raised €4.6 million for the financial support of disadvantaged children and young people.

  • International talent

    Roughly 20,000 REWE Group employees in Germany and Austria have a foreign passport, and that figure is steadily rising. This is due in part to a shortage of young applicants; a situation that has prompted the REWE Group in Germany to train more young people from outside Germany in a variety of positions. In the future, we intend to focus on recruiting prospective apprentices and managers from other European countries. These measures are increasing diversity within our workforce and ensuring that we have enough skilled workers in the future.

  • Integration through training

    In an effort to help young migrants become active members of our society and enter professional life, the REWE Group is offering specialised internships. Candidates are accepted into a training programme after an intensive recruitment process that includes career taster days and internships – sometimes in cooperation with the Joblinge Kompass programme. Before starting their training, migrants often participate in a six to twelve-month introductory course focusing on language and culture. In all, we offer more than 700 internships and 240 apprenticeships through the Joblinge programme. There is also a JOBLINGE mentoring programme, in which business, government and private individuals work together to help give disadvantaged young people genuine employment prospects and integrate them in the labour market. The REWE Group has been a programme partner since 2009, promoting integration through a mentoring programme in which our employees mentor young adults for 4-6 months.

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