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It will be 20 years ago Sunday that F. Ross Johnson set in motion the deal that forever changed R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and Winston-Salem. Johnson, perhaps the most vilified businessman in local ...

The impact of F. Ross Johnson on Reynolds American Inc. has rippled through the Fortune 500 company long after his inglorious departure in 1988.

NEW YORK — F. Ross Johnson, the former RJR Nabisco CEO depicted as the epitome of corporate greed in the best-selling book and movie “Barbarians at the Gate,” has died. He was 85. The Aycock-Riverside ...