Mission To inspire reading and simplify our customers' journeys to live with intention.
Description Books, music, mergers, and more. Formed in 2001 by combining with Chapters, Inc., Indigo Books & Music is Canada's leading bookseller, with about 245 stores in all 10 Canadian provinces and one territory, as well as an e-commerce site. Of these, about 145 locations are small-format shops that carry the Coles, IndigoSpirit, SmithBooks, and BookCompany names. The rest are superstores that operate under the Indigo, Chapters, and World's Biggest Bookstore banners. Indigo's bookstores offer an array of books, CDs, DVDs, games, and toys. In addition, the firm operates a pair of specialty gift shops called Pistachio. Starting a new digital chapter, Indigo in late 2009 spun off its e-book and e-reader operation, Kobo.
Indigo Books & Music has an employee rating of 3.8 out of 5 stars, based on 1,890 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Indigo Books & Music employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).
Overall, 73% of employees would recommend working at Indigo Books & Music to a friend. This is based on 1,895 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
73% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Indigo Books & Music as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.5 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Indigo Books & Music.