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Jupiter, Florida, United States. Nationality (legal) Canadian. Education. University of Toronto ( M.B.A.) University of Manitoba ( B.Com.) Occupation. Businessman. Frederick Ross Johnson, OC (December 13, 1931 – December 29, 2016) was a Canadian businessman, best known as the chief executive officer of RJR Nabisco in the 1980s.
The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company ( RJR) is an American tobacco manufacturing company based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and headquartered at the RJR Plaza Building. Founded by R. J. Reynolds in 1875, [1] it is the second-largest tobacco company in the United States (behind Altria ). The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Reynolds ...
Formation. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company was founded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1875 and changed its name to R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. in 1970. It became RJR Nabisco on April 25, 1986, after the company's $4.9 billion purchase, and earlier 1.9 billion stock swap, of Nabisco Brands Inc. in 1985. [5] [6]
HD2796.R57 B87 1990. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco is a 1989 book about the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco, written by investigative journalists Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. The book is based upon a series of articles written by the authors for The Wall Street Journal. [1] The book was made into a 1993 made-for-TV ...
The deal was chronicled in Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, and later made into a television movie starring James Garner. In 1988, F. Ross Johnson was the president and CEO of RJR Nabisco, a leading producer of food and tobacco products, formed in 1985 by the merger of Nabisco Brands and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
Lou Gerstner. Louis Vincent Gerstner Jr. (born March 1, 1942) is an American businessman, best known for his tenure as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of IBM from April 1993 until 2002, when he retired as CEO in March and chairman in December. He is largely credited with turning IBM's fortunes around.
Zachary. Richard Joshua Reynolds (July 20, 1850 – July 29, 1918) was an American businessman and founder of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company . The son of a tobacco farmer, he worked for his father and attended Emory & Henry College from 1868 to 1870, eventually graduating from Bryant & Stratton Business College in Baltimore.
James Dixon Robinson III was born to a wealthy family in Atlanta on November 19, 1935. [2] He was educated at the Woodberry Forest School and attended Georgia Tech 's School of Industrial Management where civil rights icon Blake Van Leer was president. He graduated from Georgia Tech in 1957 [3] [4] where he was a member of the Chi Phi fraternity.