If you tend to get light-headed when you stand up: 1  Avoid sudden changes in posture. 2  Get up from a lying position slowly, and stay seated for a few moments before standing. 3  When standing, make sure you have something to hold on to.
RJR Nabisco was formed in 1985 by the merger of Nabisco Brands and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. In 1988 RJR Nabisco was purchased by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. in what was at the time the largest leveraged buyout in history.
Nabisco, in full National Biscuit Company, former U.S. snack food and bakery product company. The National Biscuit Company was formed in 1898 when the American Biscuit Company merged with the New York Biscuit Company. Better known as Nabisco, it went on to introduce a number of popular consumer brands such as Oreo cookies (1912) and Ritz crackers (1934). After being acquired by R.J. Reynolds in 1985 and becoming part of RJR Nabisco, Nabisco was sold in 2000 to Philip Morris Companies (renamed Altria Group, Inc.), which was the parent company of Kraft Foods. Nabiscoâs brands were thereafter marketed by Kraft.