New study: BPW ranks among the top one per cent of German employers

• BPW named as ‘Leading Employer 2019’ for the first time out of 70,000 companies
• Extensive employer ranking with comprehensive methodology
• FOCUS, FOCUS Money and FOCUS Business have renewed the company’s ‘Top National Employer’, ‘Best Training Companies’ and ‘Digital Champion’ titles for 2019

Wiehl, 15 May 2019 --- BPW Bergische Achsen KG has been ranked by respected institutes and media firms as one of Germany’s top employers and training providers for years. A further study has now confirmed that the family-owned company is among the top one per cent for quality as an employer, following an analysis of around 70,000 companies for the title of ‘Leading Employer 2019’.

With solutions for electric mobility, networking of transport and logistics, plus extensively digitised production and mobility concepts, the BPW Group (around 7,200 employees worldwide, sales of 1.48 billion euros in 2017) has become a leading innovator in the commercial vehicle industry within just a few years. Such rapid change would not have been possible without the active support of the workforce and management. BPW has succeeded in this respect: studies commissioned by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and FOCUS have repeatedly found BPW to be a top employer over the years.

These findings have now been confirmed by the employer evaluation system that claims to be the most comprehensive in the world. Around 70,000 companies were studied for the ‘Leading Employer 2019’ quality label. The accolade is awarded in partnership with ZEIT and is based on big data analysis and an expert committee. These look at various quality criteria in a comprehensive assessment, including aspects such as image, employee satisfaction and incentives, talent development, HR performance, corporate social responsibility (CSR), health management and more.

FOCUS, FOCUS Money and FOCUS Business have also renewed BPW’s ‘Top National Employer’, ‘Best Training Companies’ and ‘Digital Champion’ titles for 2019.

Barbara Höfel, HR Director and member of the management board at BPW, says: ‘We are very proud to have consistently held leading positions in the most important employer rankings. Together with our employees, we have developed a sustainable corporate culture that gives us inner strength and has therefore enabled us to become a leading innovator. Classic values such as a sense of belonging and social responsibility come together with progressive leadership concepts and agile methods to create a special combination at BPW. We will build on this basis to develop our organisation further, so that we can offer our employees even more responsibility and development opportunities.’