In 1993 Scripps

E. W. Scripps Company

The E. W. Scripps Company is an American media conglomerate founded by Edward W. Scripps on November 2, 1878. The company is headquartered inside the Scripps Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its corporate motto is "Give light and the people will find their own way."On October 16, 2007, the company...

 sold the Almanac to K-III (later Primedia

Primedia

PRIMEDIA Inc. is privately held American media company fully owned by TPG Capital.Consumer Source Inc. is the sole operating division of PRIMEDIA and helps millions of consumers find apartments, houses for rent, and new homes for sale through its Internet, mobile, and print products...

).The World Almanac was sold to Ripplewood Holdings

Ripplewood Holdings

Ripplewood is an American private equity firm based in New York, New York that focuses on leveraged buyouts, late stage venture, growth capital, management buyouts, leveraged recapitalizations and other illiquid investments....

' WRC Media in 1999. Ripplewood bought Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest

Reader's Digest is a general interest family magazine, published ten times annually. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, its headquarters is now in New York City. It was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace...

 and the book was then produced by the World Almanac Education Group, which was owned by The Reader's Digest Association

The Reader's Digest Association

The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. is a global media and direct marketing company, best known for its flagship publication founded in 1922, Reader's Digest...

. The World Almanac was sold to Infobase Publishing

Infobase Publishing

Infobase Publishing is an American publisher of reference book titles and textbooks geared towards the North American library, secondary school, and university-level curriculum markets. The company was founded in 1941 with its headquarters based in New York...

 in 2009.

Some lists published are:

• "World Almanac's Ten Most Influential People of the Second Millennium", 2000
• "World Almanac's 25 Most Influential Women in America" (includes Helen Thomas
  Helen Thomas
  Helen Thomas is an American author and former news service reporter, member of the White House Press Corps and opinion columnist. She worked for the United Press and post-1958 successor United Press International for 57 years, first as a correspondent, and later as White House bureau manager...
  
  , Gloria Steinem
  Gloria Steinem
  Gloria Marie Steinem is an American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist who became nationally recognized as a leader of, and media spokeswoman for, the women's liberation movement in the late 1960s and 1970s...
  
  , Jane Bryant Quinn
  Jane Bryant Quinn
  Jane Bryant Quinn is an American financial journalist. She is one of the nation's leading commentators on personal finance...
  
  , Mary Cunningham Agee
  Mary Cunningham Agee
  Mary Cunningham Agee is an American business executive and author.Powerplay: What Really Happened at Bendix, Mary Cunningham Agee, Simon Schuster, 1984 She served in the top management of two Fortune 100 companies in the 1980s, one of the first women to do so, and was twice voted one of the “25...
  
  , Erma Bombeck
  Erma Bombeck
  Erma Louise Bombeck was an American humorist who achieved great popularity for her newspaper column that described suburban home life from the mid-1960s until the late 1990s...
  
  , and Phyllis Schlafly
  Phyllis Schlafly
  Phyllis McAlpin Stewart Schlafly is a Constitutional lawyer and an American politically conservative activist and author who founded the Eagle Forum. She is known for her opposition to modern feminism ideas and for her campaign against the proposed Equal Rights Amendment...
  
  ).

In the mid-1980s, the almanac was being put together by a 10-member staff.