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• 1989 – Founded as K-III Communications, a new venture financed by the investment group Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Co.
• 1989 – Purchased Intertec Publishing, Macmillan Book Clubs (renamed Newbridge Communications), and Gryphon Editions from Macmillan and Webb Publishing from Maxwell Communications[13]
• 1990 – Acquired Ward's from Thomson Corporation[14]
• 1990 – Purchased business publications of Andrews Communications
• 1990 – Acquired Readers Garden, operator of special interest book clubs
• 1990 – Acquired Weekly Reader and Funk & Wagnalls from Marshall Field 5th[15]
• 1991 – Purchased 9 magazines from News Corporation for $600 million.[16]
  • Daily Racing Form
  • Soap Opera Digest
  • Soap Opera Weekly
  • New York

The Atlantic Saturday Evening Post Fortune Playboy

• • Seventeen
  • Premiere
  • European Travel & Life
  • Automobile
  • New Woman
• 1992 – Acquired medical publisher Krames from Grolier[17]
• 1992 – Acquired Films for the Humanities & Sciences[18]
• 1993 – Acquired three magazines from Wiesner
• 1993 – Acquired World Almanac from Scripps
• 1994 – Acquired Stagebill
• 1994 – Acquired Katharine Gibbs[19]
• 1994 – Acquired Haas Publishing, now Consumer Source Inc., publisher of Apartment Guides
• 1994 - Acquired PJS Publications[20]
• 1995 - Acquired the US trade magazine operations of Maclean-Hunter[21]
• 1995 – Went public
• 1995 – Acquired Chicago from Landmark Communications
• 1995 – Acquired McMullen & Yee Publishing, a publisher of automotive magazine[22]
• 1996 – Acquired 14 publications from Cahners Consumer Magazines
• 1996 – Acquired Pro Football Weekly
• 1996 – Acquired Westcott Communications[23] (later renamed Primedia Workplace Learning)
• 1997 – Acquired Farm Press[24]
• 1997 – Acquired Intellichoice
• 1997 – Sold Krames to Times Mirror[25]
• 1997 – New Woman sold to Rodale
• 1997 – Katharine Gibbs sold to Career Education Corporation
• 1997 – Acquires Park Avenue Publishing, publisher of Lowrider[26]
• 1997 – Changed name to Primedia Inc.
• 1998 – Acquires Cowles Enthusiast Media and Cowles Business Media divisions of Cowles Media Company from McClatchy Newspapers[27]
• 1998 – Daily Racing Form sold to private investors
• 1998 – Stagebill sold to Fred B. Tarter
• 1998 – Newbridge Communications sold to Doubleday Direct[28]
• 1998 – Acquired Sterling/MacFadden's teen magazines and teen publisher Laufer Publishing
• 1999 – Primedia's education unit (Weekly Reader, World Almanac) sold to Ripplewood Holdings
• 1999 – Acquired Multimedia Publishing[29]
• 1999 – Sold Better Nutrition, Southwest Art, and Vegetarian Times to Sabot Publishing[30][31]
• 2000 – Acquired About.com
• 2001 – Purchased EMAP's US magazines (formerly Petersen Publishing)
• 2001 – Closed Country Journal
• 2002 – Modern Bride sold to Condé Nast Publications
• 2002 – Pro Football Weekly sold to Arkush family
• 2002 – Chicago sold to Tribune Company
• 2002 – American Baby sold to Meredith Corporation
• 2003 – Volleyball, Teddy Bear and Friends and Doll Reader sold to Ashton International Media[32]
• 2003 – Seventeen sold to Hearst Corporation
• 2003 – New York sold to Bruce Wasserstein
• 2003 – Tiger Beat and Bop sold to Laufer Media
• 2003 – Kitplanes sold to Belvoir Publications[33]
• 2003 – Simba Information sold to R.R. Bowker[34]
• 2004 – Sold Folio: and Circulation Management to Red 7 Media[35]
• 2005 – About.com sold to The New York Times Company
• 2005 – Sold business information segment (ex-Intertec[36]) to private investors Wasserstein & Co. (later merged with Penton Media)
• 2005 – Sold Ward's to Prism Business Media[37]
• 2006 – Sold history magazines to Weider History Group[38]
• 2006 – Sold Crafts Group to Sandler Capital Management[39]
• 2006 – Sold Outdoor Group to InterMedia Partners[40]
• 2007 – Sold Enthusiast Media group (containing the vast majority of Primedia's magazines) to Source Interlink, controlled by Ronald Burkle, for $1.2 billion.[41]
• 2007 – Sold Gems group to Interweave[42]
• 2007 – Sold Climbing to Skram Media[43]
• 2007 – Sold Films for the Humanities & Sciences to Infobase Publishing[44]
• 2007 – Sold Channel One News to Alloy Media and Marketing
• 2008 – Sold South Florida Auto Guide and Wisconsin Auto Guide to TargetMedia Partners; closes Atlanta Auto Guide
• 2009 – Closes Today's Custom Home
• 2011 – TPG Capital acquires company
• 2012 – Acquires rent.com from eBay for an undisclosed amount.[45]
• 2014 – Acquires San Francisco startup Lovely for $13 million.[46]
• 2014 – Providence Equity Partners LLC becomes an equal partner with TPG Capital.[47]

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