Icahn also got involved in the battle between Pennzoil and Texaco over Getty Oil. He accumulated more than 13% of Texaco's stock but failed in his effort to take control of the board. He profited when the resolution of the dispute lifted Texaco's share price, bringing Icahn a financialwin...
A General Mills spokesman said the agency assignment will not be decided until the deal is approved by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Canadian Bureau of Competition. Nabisco spent less than $8 million on measured media advertising for the Shredded wheat brands last year.Hume...
Tylenol was the target of atampering casein the Chicago area that killed seven people when it was determined the product had been laced with cyanide. Johnson & Johnson’s response is considered the gold standard in handling such a crisis. The company put out mass...
ICE CREAM: I scream! You scream! We all scream! For ice cream! A man who allegedly stole anywhere from eight to ten pints of Häagen-Dazs is lucky police happened to be chasing him down the block.
Who owns the Heinz company? On March 25, 2015, Kraft announced its merger with Heinz, arranged byBerkshire Hathawayand 3G Capital. The resulting Kraft Heinz Company is the fifth largest food company in the world. Berkshire Hathaway became a majority owner of Heinz on June 18, 2015. ...
fair commercial in anticipation of the launch, and tiger's media buying agencies are buying time on channels like fox kids network, nickelodeon, and abc. rosenberg has nailed down a deal for a back-to-school promotional giveaway with nabisco, which will put furby's image on the back of ...
producer of canned Oriental food, from RJR Nabisco. Says Yeo: ''Having an American brand is our shortcut to globalization.'' His own brand, called Yeo's, is a popular commodity in Asia, where the company turns out such products as chicken curry and chrysanthemum tea. Pushing those ethnic...
When the financial history of the 1980s is written, when the tales of leverage are limned, the $25 billion RJR Nabisco buyout will no doubt be viewed as the epochal transaction. But the Campeau drama has no rival for absurdity as it proceeded and for shattering effects as it ended. ...
“i am notorious. it is a kind of infamy doing what i am doing, isn’t that what they say?” it was never jeffrey wigand’s ambition to [#image: /photos/54cc02d55e7a91c52823b45f]become a central figure in the great social chronicle of the tobacco wars. by his own description,...