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...antismoking movement, Reynolds has long been eager to reduce its dependence on tobacco. Cigarettes currently account for 75% of the company's earnings. It has already acquired Kentucky Fried Chicken, Del Monte foods, Canada Dry soft drinks and Heublein's liquors and wines. The addition of Nabisco favorites, including Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers, Planters peanuts and Baby Ruth candy bars, will give Reynolds a full pantry of profitable products. Moreover, the acquisition will enable Reynolds to be much stronger overseas. Foreign sales account for about 37% of Nabisco's business, compared with only 21% at Reynolds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Acquisitions: Taking a $4.9 Billion Bite | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...fronts. Nabisco Brands (1984 sales: $6.3 billion) held exploratory talks with R.J. Reynolds (1984 sales: $13 billion). Wall Street speculates that Reynolds, which sells cigarettes, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Del Monte foods, would pay some $5.3 billion to gobble up Nabisco, king of the snack cupboard and maker of Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and Baby Ruth candy bars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: Etc. Billion-Dollar Games | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...bars and clubs. A list of their favorite drinks reads like a dessert menu from the 1950s. At 104 TGI Friday's around the country, for instance, it is the pineapple fling (lime Calistoga water and fruit juices); at the Hyatt hotel in San Francisco it is "Remember the Oreo" (creme de cacao, ice cream and Oreo cookies). For guys, it is no longer considered wimpy to order a light beer. Says a Friday's vice president, Gregory Dollarhyde: "There's reverse psychology at work. You're going to be fat and unattractive if you don't (order it). Looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Water, Water Everywhere | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...Besides the jillions of soft-serv places dispensing chilled liquid linoleum, there are a select few spots that--in price, generosity and yumminess--put Steve's and Herrell's to shame. The best shop on The Cape is on 6A in Dennis village: The Ice Cream Smuggler, where the Oreo is flush with cookies and the Moch.. Chip and Chocolate Chocolate Almond will drive you wild.11Fishing on Colorado's Red Feather Lakes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Trips | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

Dunster also sells a wide selection of ice cream-six flavors including oreo and heavenly hash-for as little as 50 cents a cup, prices which make the walk to Cahaly's seem less than appealing, say some patrons...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: The Grills Next Door | 10/29/1983 | See Source »

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