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...What about the employees? You say that at least 800 will have to be laid off? Isn't an LBO very hard on employees...
...just to be convivial. Declaring that he had tried everything he could during the past two years to boost RJR Nabisco's stock price, Johnson said he had found a solution: he and his fellow top managers would take complete control of the company in a leveraged buyout (LBO). Johnson would then sell off some of the company's food brands and run the remaining divisions as a private company. Surprised that a chief executive would initiate a raid on his own company, the directors nonetheless allowed him to mount what would be the largest takeover ever...
...directors who had come to dinner at the Waverly Hotel. Appalled by the gall shown by Johnson, whom one director called a "raider from the inside," a committee of five directors three weeks ago opened the bidding to all comers. First to accept the invitation were the most aggressive LBO artists of all, the Wall Street firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Headed by Henry Kravis, 44, and George Roberts, 45, KKR pioneered the leveraged buyout in the 1970s and nurtured it into one of the best-paying financial arrangements of the decade...
...donnybrook was only the most colossal of the deals that persisted last week in rearranging the U.S. corporate landscape. Hospital Corporation of America, the nation's largest hospital chain, ended more than a month of dickering and agreed to be acquired for $3.6 billion in an LBO put together by the company's management. Triangle Industries, which just two years ago acquired the packaging division of American Can in an LBO, agreed to be bought for $1.3 billion by Pechiney, the state-owned French metals firm...
...well-run corporations can return up to 100 times the amount of a manager's original investment. With investors lured by such prospects, the value of completed LBOs soared from just $13.4 billion in 1984 to $76.8 billion so far this year. Since 1985, four of the ten largest LBO acquisitions have been made...