Andreas Gericke-von Skotnicki will start in mid-August as Managing Director of X-CAGO BV, the Dutch specialist for data and content conversion in the international publishing industry.
Koos Hussem, founder and managing director of
“I am pleased that Andreas is coming on board with us. He is firmly anchored in the German-speaking publishing scene. With his knowledge, we can also use X-CAGO in the DA-CH area the “establish ourselves as the leading provider of high-quality and fast data conversion for content producers,” explains Koos Hussem.
Gericke-von Skotnicki is an expert in the publishing business. He worked for over a decade as legal counsel for media law for the parent company of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. From 2019, he took over national and international license marketing for their content marketer, DIZ München GmbH, and has been their managing director since 2022.
“Especially in the last six years as chairman of the PMG shareholders’ meeting, I have seen the potential that lies in classic publishing content. Together with my colleagues at X-CAGO, I am looking forward to the challenges and opportunities that the international content market also offers has to offer!” says Andreas Gericke-von Skotnicki.
Ingo Kästner, managing director of X-CAGO parent PMG Presse-Monitor, welcomes Gericke-von Skotnicki in his new position: “With Andreas we were able to find an expert for publishing content. Together we will turn the successful duo PMG and X-CAGO into a full service -Develop partners for publishers.”
Finally, he thanks Koos Hussem: “Koos founded Platforms and the conversion of publishing content. Koos and his team have actively worked with us to closely integrate PMG and X-CAGO for mutual benefit. This is the basis for further profitable growth even in difficult times.
About PMG Presse-Monitor GmbH & Co. KG and X-CAGO BV
With the largest daily press database in German-speaking countries, PMG Presse-Monitor GmbH & Co. KG is a leading provider of digital media monitoring, press review creation and media evaluation.
PMG markets content and rights from around 900 newspaper and magazine publishers. Of over 4,000 print and online sources, around 3,000 are available digitally in the PMG press database. The company supplies over 5,000 customers from companies, associations, public institutions, media monitoring services and PR agencies from Berlin.
Founded in 2001, PMG is a joint venture of German newspaper and magazine publishers with the shareholders Axel Springer, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Gruner + Jahr, Handelsblatt Media Group, Hubert Burda Media, Spiegel-Verlag, Süddeutsche Zeitung as well as the Federal Association of Digital Publishers and Newspaper Publishers and the media association of the free press.
In 2021, PMG is taking a big step towards becoming the central data hub for content publishers with the acquisition of the Dutch data converter X-CAGO BV. The company is internationally successful in converting and standardizing a wide variety of content formats. AchiveExpress, the digital archive solution from X-CAGO, is used by publishers worldwide as a distribution platform for their content.