Ingo Kästner, Managing Director of PMG Presse-Monitor, will also be assuming the management of X-CAGO starting on 1 January. X-CAGO, a leading international specialist for data and content conversion in the publishing industry, was previously led by founder Koos Hussem, who will be retiring at the end of the year but will remain available to the company with his expertise.
Since 2019, Ingo Kästner has been the head of PMG Presse-Monitor and played a key role in the acquisition of X-CAGO in 2021. He now shares responsibility for the Dutch company’s business with Koos Hussem.
‘Ingo Kästner is an accomplished manager and expert in digital content marketing. In recent years, he has created new opportunities to successfully market high-quality content digitally. Under his leadership, PMG and X-CAGO have become a strong strategic unit. His takeover of the management is the next logical step in continuing this success story.’
‘I would like to thank Koos warmly for the trusting collaboration over the last few years. With his commitment and vision, he has made X-CAGO one of the most sought-after providers of content management and data conversion since it was founded in 2000. It is an honour for me to continue on this successful path.Together with his first-class team, we will continue to expand X-CAGO’s role as a technical pioneer and offer content producers worldwide perfect solutions for successful digital marketing.’
Olivera Kipcic, Chairwoman of the PMG shareholders’ meeting and shareholder representative of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, emphasizes the following:
Ingo Kästner bids farewell to Koos Hussem with the following words:
About PMG Presse-Monitor GmbH & Co. KG and X-CAGO B.V.
PMG Presse-Monitor GmbH & Co. KG is a leading provider of digital media monitoring, press review creation, and media analysis with the largest daily updated press database in the German-speaking world.
PMG offers the content and rights of approximately 900 newspaper and magazine publishers, with over 3,000 of the 4,000 print and online sources available digitally in the PMG press database. Based in Berlin, the company serves over 5,000 customers, including companies, associations, public institutions, media monitoring services, and PR agencies.
PMG was established in 2001 as a collaboration among German newspaper and magazine publishers, including Axel Springer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Gruner + Jahr, Handelsblatt Media Group, Hubert Burda Media, Spiegel-Verlag, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Bundesverband Digitalpublisher und Zeitungsverleger, and Medienverband der freien Presse.
PMG is making significant strides in becoming a central data hub for content publishers in 2021 with the acquisition of Dutch data converter X-CAGO B.V. Known for their expertise in converting and standardizing diverse content formats, X-CAGO’s digital archive solution, ArchiveExpress, is a widely used distribution platform for publishers around the globe.
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