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action press AG: Top appointments at media tech asset action press - Seite 2

 

With his many years of cross-functional management experience in finance and accounting, controlling, human resources and IT, Graduate in Business Administration Frank Glandorf (age 50) is the new commercial director of action press AG. His expertise in the implementation of software, the optimization of processes (automation, digitization, workflows) and profitable further development through the implementation of cost management qualify him for his new area of responsibility. Frank Glandorf will also support action press AG’s upcoming investment and financing projects. In addition, he knows his new work environment, the trained tax specialist was already commercial director of action press from 2008 to 2009 and from 2009 to 2011 in the same function at ddp in Hamburg.
 

“We are very pleased that in Daniel Nikolic we have been able to recruit an editor-in-chief from our own ranks for this important task,” says action press AG CEO Ulli Michel. “In addition to lived pragmatism, Nikolic stands out with his strong digital expertise; we are now opening up strong monetization opportunities for publishers and content providers.”
 

“We are equally pleased to have Frank Glandorf return to action press,” said board member Prof. Moritz Hunzinger. “Glandorf is a strategically thinking, execution-driven entrepreneurial personality with a strong market and customer focus, who also has in-depth knowledge of the image industry.”
 

Successful image brands under one roof

action press AG, whose parent company was founded in 1970, unites under one roof the picture agency brands action press, the leading European brand for entertainment content, and the cross-departmental quality provider for press photography ddp images.
 

ddp images includes Pictures Press, Intertopics and Food Centrale (which appears on Microsoft’s web portals in German, English and Spanish with a new revenue model) and, since 2019, Stella Pictures AB (Stockholm), which is present in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark and has outstanding productions about the Scandinavian royals and was acquired in full in 2022. In addition, ddp photos will be distributed worldwide via the Reuters Connect international platform. Every day, a total of up to 50,000 press images and videos are processed by 5,000 photographers and 130 partner agencies from 120 countries and keyworded according to the highest editorial standards.