Tech Moves: Drugstore.com vet takes helm at Allrecipes; Cascadia hires investment banking vet; etc.

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Former drugstore.com vice president of e-commerce Stan Pavlovsky has been named president of Allrecipes.com, an appointment that comes after longtime exec Lisa Sharples announced that she’d be leaving the company next month. Founded in 1997, Allrecipes was acquired a year ago by magazine publisher Meredith for $175 million. “Stan has the ultimate combination of marketing… Read More…

Report: Lisa Sharples to leave AllRecipes.com in March

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Lisa Sharples is stepping down as the top chef at AllRecipes.com, the popular online recipe service that was acquired 13 months ago by Meredith for $175 million. All Things D reports that Sharples notified staffers on Thursday that she will be leaving the company at the end of March to spend more time with her family…. Read More…

Magazine publisher Meredith gobbles up AllRecipes for $175M

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AllRecipes.com has been on the auction block for several months, and now it finally has a buyer. Meredith Corp., the magazine publisher behind titles such as Eating Well, Parents and Family Circle, is buying the No. 1 online food site from Reader’s Digest Association for $175 million. “The acquisition of Allrecipes.com, the market leader in… Read More…

Bidding heats up for AllRecipes: Are Amazon, AOL and Random House stirring in the kitchen?

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It’s no secret that AllRecipes.com — the wildly popular online recipe site — is on the auction block. In fact, Reader’s Digest — which gobbled up AllRecipes for $66 million in 2006 — has publicly said that it plans to unload the property. The auction process is now coming to an end, and The New… Read More…

Reader’s Digest looks to unload AllRecipes.com

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Five years ago, Reader’s Digest Association gobbled up Seattle’s AllRecipes.com for about $66 million. Now, the publishing company is looking to sever the popular online Web site, selling it to the highest bidder. The news, reported today by AdWeek, comes eight days after Reader’s Digest said that it plans to sell the magazine, “Every Day with… Read More…

Allrecipes buys Food Wishes, plots world domination of online food videos

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Seattle-based Allrecipes.com has acquired Food Wishes, a channel of popular how-to videos from  ”Chef John” Mitzewich — saying it “adds YouTube’s largest, most viewed collection of how-to food videos to the world’s largest audience of online cooks” and “further establishes Allrecipes.com as the most powerful online destination for home cooks.” The headline on the news… Read More…

Allrecipes ‘Dinner Spinner’ app comes to Windows Phone

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Windows Phone continues to bolster its library of apps, and for some reason Microsoft seems to be having more than its share of luck courting food-oriented ventures headquartered in its home region. Seattle-based Allrecipes today released its Dinner Spinner app for Windows, developed by the Wire Stone digital agency. The debut follows Amazon’s release of… Read More…