RJR Nabisco Inc. was a tobacco and food company and was eventually purchased for $25 billion by the investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in the late 1980s. RJR managers had also presented ...
Antoine Gara In the mid-1980s, the private equity firm KKR did a leveraged buyout of grocery store chain Safeway. And they used a very small sliver of equity to buy what was one of America’s biggest ...