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High school students are using p. r. ploys that would put Procter & Gamble to shame: sending videotapes and cookies with their applications and hiring imagemakers...
...First Boston's bid persuaded RJR's board to give the group until Nov. 29 to make the offer more concrete. If successful, the high-rolling group would probably keep RJR's tobacco business and sell its food groups to such consumer-product companies as Ralston Purina and Procter & Gamble...
...topping the rival offer of $20.6 billion from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the high-flying leveraged-buyout firm. Now the two sides may be getting new competition. At week's end Forstmann Little, a Manhattan investment firm, said it might make an even higher bid for RJR Nabisco, backed by Procter & Gamble and other large corporate investors...
...finding the right nursing home for an elderly parent. The Merck pharmaceutical company helped start a day-care center near its Rahway, N.J., headquarters, and permits employees to start work as early as 7 a.m. or as late as 9:30 a.m. so that they can meet family obligations. Procter & Gamble offers workers unpaid child-care leave of up to one year, with a guarantee that they will not lose their job. American Express conducts workplace seminars on topics as diverse as pregnancy planning, family stress and elder care. Capital Cities/ABC contributes up to $3,000 when an employee adopts...
...Kissane, who operate C&K Marketing of New Jersey (1987 sales: $9 million), allegedly awarded three prizes to friends, and in at least one of those cases kept the money for themselves. The C&K officials, who have conducted contests for dozens of major companies, including PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble, have denied any wrongdoing...