As of January 1st, Ingo Kästner, managing director of PMG Presse-Monitor, will now also take over the management of X-CAGO. The Dutch company is a leading international specialist for data and content conversion in the international publishing industry. The previous managing director and founder Koos Hussem will take his well-deserved retirement at the turn of the year, but will continue to provide the company with his expertise.
Ingo Kästner has headed PMG Presse-Monitor since 2019. In 2021 he took the lead in initiating the purchase of X-CAGO. Since then, he has been responsible for the Dutch company’s business together with Koos Hussem.
Olivera Kipcic, chairwoman of the PMG shareholders’ meeting and shareholder representative of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, emphasizes:
“Ingo Kästner is an experienced 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 became a strong strategic unit. The He taking over the management is the next logical step to continue this success story.”
Ingo Kästner says goodbye to Koos Hussem with the following words: “I would like to thank Koos for the trusting cooperation over the last few years. With his commitment and vision, he has made X-CAGO one of the most sought-after providers for content management and data conversion since it was founded in 2000 It is an honor for me to continue on this successful path. Together with his first-class team, we will continue to expand X-CAGO’s technical pioneering role and provide content producers worldwide with perfect solutions for successful digital Offer marketing.”
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 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. ArchiveExpress, the digital archive solution from X-CAGO, is used by publishers worldwide as a distribution platform for their content.