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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. led the condemnation of smuggled electronic cigarettes, vape parts, and accessories worth P3.26 billion on Monday as the administration intensifies efforts to curb its ...
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They seized 997 packets of cigarettes, 173 pouches of tobacco and 523 vapes. A spokesman for Lancashire Police said: “Burnley Neighbourhood Police and Trading Standards will continue to target ...
If you’ve been in the desert long enough, you might remember the amazing amount of money RJR Nabisco spent on the LPGA event, known then as the Nabisco Dinah Shore. The company would fly in top ...
Last week, Vanity Fair writer Bryan Burrough – author of Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco – revealed he’d been paid around $166,000 per feature. “For 25 years, I was ...
That epic 1989 book Barbarians at the Gate is not a tale of fantasy, it is in reality a first-hand account of the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco and its subsequent break up — it is also the ...
Demolition of the old Nabisco plant in Fair Lawn is underway but progressing slowly due to safety checks. Initial plans to build a warehouse on the site are now uncertain due to changing market ...
They come in. Pillage the company for returns. And, sometimes, leave a broken listless firm behind. The buyout of RJR Nabisco gave rise to the term ‘Barbarians at the gate’. Then there are numerous ...
KKR, which has a 25 per cent stake in Northumbrian Water, was dubbed the ‘barbarians at the gate’ for its fearsome reputation after buying out tobacco group RJR Nabisco in 1988, which was ...