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Rent Group
Rent Group Inc., stylized as Rent., is a media company that owns Rent.com, ApartmentGuide.com, Lovely, and Rentals.com. It was previously called K-III (1989–1997), PriMedia (1997–2013), and RentPath (2013-2022).
The company at one time owned over 200 magazines, including Chicago and New York, as well as Automobile, Truckin' Magazine, Soap Opera Digest, Soap Opera Weekly, Seventeen, and Weekly Reader.
The company, initially called K-III Communications Corporation, was founded in 1989 by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Macmillan Inc. president Bill Reilly, as a platform to buy media properties. Its first acquisitions were Macmillan's Book Clubs, Gryphon Editions (renamed Newbridge Communications), and Intertec Publishing; and Maxwell Communications Corporation's Webb Publishing.
In 1990, K-III acquired Ward's from Thomson Corporation It also acquired the business publications of Andrews Communications; Readers Garden, operator of special interest book clubs; and Weekly Reader and Funk & Wagnalls from Marshall Field V.
In 1991, it acquired nine magazines from News Corporation for $600 million: Daily Racing Form, Soap Opera Digest, Soap Opera Weekly, New York, Seventeen, Premiere, European Travel & Life, Automobile, and New Woman.
In 1992, it acquired medical publisher Krames from Grolier, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences.
In 1993, it acquired three magazines from Wiesner, and The World Almanac from E. W. Scripps Company.
In 1994, K-III acquired Stagebill; Gibbs College; Haas Publishing (now Consumer Source Inc.), publisher of Apartment Guide; and PJS Publications.
Rent Group
Rent Group Inc., stylized as Rent., is a media company that owns Rent.com, ApartmentGuide.com, Lovely, and Rentals.com. It was previously called K-III (1989–1997), PriMedia (1997–2013), and RentPath (2013-2022).
The company at one time owned over 200 magazines, including Chicago and New York, as well as Automobile, Truckin' Magazine, Soap Opera Digest, Soap Opera Weekly, Seventeen, and Weekly Reader.
The company, initially called K-III Communications Corporation, was founded in 1989 by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Macmillan Inc. president Bill Reilly, as a platform to buy media properties. Its first acquisitions were Macmillan's Book Clubs, Gryphon Editions (renamed Newbridge Communications), and Intertec Publishing; and Maxwell Communications Corporation's Webb Publishing.
In 1990, K-III acquired Ward's from Thomson Corporation It also acquired the business publications of Andrews Communications; Readers Garden, operator of special interest book clubs; and Weekly Reader and Funk & Wagnalls from Marshall Field V.
In 1991, it acquired nine magazines from News Corporation for $600 million: Daily Racing Form, Soap Opera Digest, Soap Opera Weekly, New York, Seventeen, Premiere, European Travel & Life, Automobile, and New Woman.
In 1992, it acquired medical publisher Krames from Grolier, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences.
In 1993, it acquired three magazines from Wiesner, and The World Almanac from E. W. Scripps Company.
In 1994, K-III acquired Stagebill; Gibbs College; Haas Publishing (now Consumer Source Inc.), publisher of Apartment Guide; and PJS Publications.