{"id":41705,"date":"2013-05-14T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T20:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41705"},"modified":"2013-05-14T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T20:58:53","slug":"bonnier-offloads-two-more-magazine-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41705","title":{"rendered":"Bonnier Offloads Two More Magazine Titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bonnier_corp_logo-1-tm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18289\" alt=\"bonnier_corp_logo-1-tm.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bonnier_corp_logo-1-tm.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bonniercorp.com\">Bonnier Corp<\/a><\/strong>, the parent company of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transworld.net\/\">Transworld Media<\/a>,<\/strong> has apparently sold two more of its magazine titles. A little over a week ago they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41441\"><strong>sold Ski, Skiing, and Warren Miller Entertainment<\/strong><\/a>. This week they&#8217;ve sold their parenting magazines to publisher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meredith.com\"><strong>Meredith<\/strong><\/a>, according to a story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foliomag.com\/2013\/meredith-buys-and-absorbs-parenting-and-babytalk-bonnier\"><strong>Folio.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Meredith today announced it acquired the <em><strong>Parenting<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Babytalk<\/strong><\/em> brands from Bonnier. The two magazines will effectively be absorbed into Meredith&#8217;s existing Parents and American Baby brands. . .\u00a0Following the deal, subscribers of Parenting and Babytalk will begin getting Parents and American Baby instead starting with the September issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And while there is still no talk of selling Transworld Media, and President <strong>Dave Freygang<\/strong> assures the industry that the recent slew of title offloading &#8220;should not be taken as the dismantling of the company,&#8221; a spokesman for Bonnier is reported as saying that &#8220;the company will continue to review opportunities for further rightsizing as well as acquisitions.&#8221; Rightsizing? Yeah, that means selling more stuff doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foliomag.com\/2013\/meredith-buys-and-absorbs-parenting-and-babytalk-bonnier\">Folio<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonnier Corp, the parent company of Transworld Media, has apparently sold two more of its magazine titles. A little over a week ago they sold Ski, Skiing, and Warren Miller Entertainment. This week they&#8217;ve sold their parenting magazines to publisher Meredith, according to a story on Folio.com. Meredith today announced it acquired the Parenting and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41705"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41708,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41705\/revisions\/41708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}