Example sentences for: rjr

How can you use “rjr” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • LeBow's hope, which ultimately proved false, was that RJR investors would welcome a takeover if it would allow RJR to share in Liggett's lenient settlement.

  • The cover story profiles Steven F. Goldstone, RJR Nabisco chairman and Big Tobacco defender.

  • The NYT runs a front-page above-the-fold story reporting that a subsidiary of RJR has pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges of smuggling cigarettes into Canada through a New York Indian reservation in order to avoid paying U.S. and Canadian taxes.

  • This expression was a staple of business thinking in the '80s, and was epitomized by the experience of RJR Nabisco, which became the subject of a huge bidding war after its management tried to take the company private in a leveraged buyout.

  • Thus was Henry Kravis, co-founder of the leveraged-buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, introduced to the viewing public in the HBO film version of the 1980s business classic Barbarians at the Gate . The story of KKR's successful but ill-fated LBO of RJR Nabisco, Barbarians offered an indelible portrayal of KKR (and its competitors and allies) as made up of insatiable deal makers and game players.


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