FILE - This Monday, May 3, 2021 record photograph shows the office of Meredith Corp. successful Des Moines, Iowa. On Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, Barry Diller's IAC announced it is buying Meredith, 1 of the country's largest mag companies, successful hopes of accelerating a integer displacement arsenic people fades. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

FILE - This Monday, May 3, 2021 record photograph shows the office of Meredith Corp. successful Des Moines, Iowa. On Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, Barry Diller's IAC announced it is buying Meredith, 1 of the country's largest mag companies, successful hopes of accelerating a integer displacement arsenic people fades. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

NEW YORK – Barry Diller's IAC is buying Meredith, 1 of the country's largest mag companies and the steadfast of People, Southern Living and InStyle, successful hopes of accelerating a integer displacement arsenic people fades.

IAC's Dotdash, a postulation of websites including Investopedia, Brides, Serious Eats and Simply Recipes, volition articulation with Meredith, the companies announced Wednesday. Dotdash's CEO Neil Vogel volition pb the group, which the companies accidental volition scope much than 175 cardinal radical online. The woody is expected to adjacent by year's end. IAC is paying $42.18 per share, funded by currency and debt, that values Meredith astatine astir $2.7 billion.

It's a large turnaround for Des Moines, Iowa-based Meredith, which lone 4 years agone bought the Time Inc. magazines for $1.8 cardinal to bulk up its ain mag business. It proceeded to merchantability disconnected storied titles that didn't acceptable successful with its lifestyle-based company, similar Time, Sports Illustrated and Fortune. The pandemic has accelerated print-ad declines, IAC said successful a presentation, and going forward, people volition enactment the integer effort — a proposition that immoderate brands could halt their people run. The institution volition “focus connected apical titles,” IAC said.

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Meredith, a longtime concern beingness successful Iowa, had besides agreed to merchantability disconnected its TV-station operations earlier this twelvemonth successful a $2.8 cardinal deal with Gray Television. A connection Wednesday from Meredith's vice chairman, Mell Meredith Frazier, said that the Meredith household was arrogant of the company's achievements implicit the past 120 years, and that Dotdash Meredith would inactive beryllium an “active member” of the Des Moines community.

The companies did not instantly reply if determination would beryllium layoffs, arsenic is communal aft acquisitions, oregon if immoderate Meredith operations would enactment successful Iowa. In its presentation, IAC said it expected up to $50 cardinal successful savings successful the archetypal twelvemonth of operations, and outgo cuts typically mean occupation cuts.

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