Life Savers (a division of Nabisco) is using the Internet to remind fans of its 80-year-old candy roll.
And Pennzoil-Quaker State, like Nabisco, has two of the best-known brands in the business.
Those benefiting from this reduced competition could include Group Danone, Philip Morris, Nabisco and Kraft Suchard.
The takeover also resulted in the loss of at least 45, 000 RJR Nabisco jobs.
Shortly afterwards, Japan Tobacco bought RJR Nabisco's international business, and France's Seita and Spain's Tabacalera unveiled a tie-up.
Case-in-point: The only snack food regularly available in my house growing up was Nabisco Honey Maid Graham Crackers.
Sun-Young Yoo, also of South Korea, took the Kraft Nabisco Championship, while China's Shanshan Feng won June's LPGA Championship.
If successful, the bid would be the largest leveraged buyout since Kohlberg Kravis Roberts bought RJR Nabisco in 1989.
Looking to make his own mark, young David started covering tobacco giant RJR Nabisco, fresh off its 1991 public offering.
Top-ranked Inbee Park, coming off a victory two weeks in the Kraft Nabisco Championship, was 3 under after a 71.
Before that he held management positions at Kraft and General Mills and was president of the Nabisco Foods Company.
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Philip Morris, owner of Kraft, also plans to sell stock in the behemoth food business it is creating by acquiring Nabisco.
Lucite tombstones recount conquests involving many of the great companies of the 20th century, from MGM to Motorola, Texaco to Nabisco.
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Worldwide brands and products include Cadbury, Jacobs, Kraft, LU, Maxwell House, Milka, Nabisco, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Trident, Tang, Velveeta, Kraft Dinner.
Sjodin fired a four-under 68 to join Tseng on nine-under 207 Saturday at the top of the Kraft Nabisco Championship leaderboard.
Two Nabisco brands, Chips Ahoy and Oreo, are the top cookie brands.
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Jeter also has deals with Bestfoods, Nabisco and Fleer trading cards.
Here's why: After paying the interest on all that debt, the new RJR Nabisco will probably operate in the red for a while.
For sure, she has all the necessary ingredients: Mondelez is a collection of pantry staples, from Nabisco crackers to Oreo cookies to Cadbury chocolates.
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Nine of the ten top leveraged buyouts ever have taken place since the beginning of last year (KKR's 1988 purchase of RJR Nabisco is the exception).
Kraft, meanwhile, had doubled in size in Latin America when it merged with Nabisco in 2000, and today its presence is felt most strongly there through cookie sales.
She has never missed the cut in eight majors, and first hit the headlines when she tied for ninth as a 13-year-old in the 2003 Kraft Nabisco Championship.
The upcoming sale of shares in its food business, once the Nabisco acquisition is combined with Philip Morris' Kraft, will prove that the tobacco operations are valued near zero.
Sounds like someone might need to re-read their copy of the classic Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar.
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But since then Nabisco has grown its top line by smartly extending its iconic brands such as Fig Newtons and Oreos, adding choices that packed less of a calorie wallop.
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In fact, RJR Nabisco CEO Steven Goldstone said he's still committed to the deal worked out by the tobacco industry, 40 state attorneys general and a couple packs of lawyers.
Like Hostess, RJR Nabisco was saddled with crushing debt.
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For lack of a better word, good old fashioned opportunistic public relations efforts won the day for Nabisco, with traditional Super Bowl advertising stars E-Trade and Bud Lite nowhere to be found.
Lou Gerstner , a former RJR Nabisco executive, had no computer or technology experience, but he had a very successful tenure at IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ).
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