Was it only last year that financier Henry Kravis and his partners borrowed a whopping $28 billion to buy R JR Nabisco in the biggest leveraged buyout in history? It seems like an age--namely, the age ...

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and British American Tobacco PLC on Monday agreed to merge their American tobacco businesses, uniting the nation's second and third largest tobacco companies in an effort to ...

Long-established but lagging in sales, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco's Winston and Doral cigarette brands appear headed for history's ashtray. When the troubled tobacco company announced last month that it ...

A Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday that R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. must pay $102 million to settle a lawsuit between the state of Florida and four tobacco companies dating back to 1995. RJR argued ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- The Federal Trade Commission has cleared R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. to merge, giving the thumbs-up to a union of the country's No. 2 and No.

NEW YORK (AP) — F. Ross Johnson, the former RJR Nabisco CEO depicted as the epitome of corporate greed in the best-selling book and movie “Barbarians at the Gate,” has died. He was 85. The ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc., the second-largest cigarette maker in the United States, is attempting to buy Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., the maker of American Spirit ...

What a difference a year makes. At the beginning of 1990, RJR Nabisco was still awash in corporate debt and bad publicity from "Barbarians at the Gate," the best-selling account of its takeover by ...

Canadian businessman F. Ross Johnson, the former RJR Nabisco chief executive depicted as the epitome of corporate greed in the bestselling book and movie “Barbarians at the Gate,” has died. He was 85.