leaders pon
;and 34,634 (39.9 percent) were
.women. Of RJR Nabinco's
12,627 managers before the
/. reorganization, 2,424 (19.2 per:
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ncic minorities ana #?,462
> 1(19.5 percent) were women.
>>F. Ross Johnson, RJR
; 'Nabisco's president and chief ex?
:?$utive officer, said in a press
- statement that the move to Atlan:
ta was needed to "strengthen
: both our parent company and the
.-domestic tobacco company,,
~ which will remain headquartered
- in Winston-Salem."
? ???? t wawu ^ vvj., wnicn
: employs roughly 14,000 local
workers, will stay in the city, say
company officials, although RJR
Tobacco International will! move
; to London.
: The NAACP's Marshall said
one possible negative aspect of
: the move could be the relocation
; of some of RJR's top black ex:
ecutives, such as Marshall B.
Bass, senior vice president, and
Benjamin Ruffin, director of corporate
affairs programs.
"I think that if these executives
are moved, it will have a big impact
on the black community,'*
^Marshall said. "If we lose men of
that caliber, it will hav?; an imi
pact on the way we do things
here. These men have made it
easier for blacks to secure their
share of RJR's benevolent gifts."
Reynolds officials ssiid it has
.' not yet been determined whether
Bass or Ruffin will be transferred.
The Rev. Carlton A.G.
Eversley, pastor of peilabrook
Presbyterian Church, said RJR's
relocation will affect the city's
image.
"1 think it (RJR's decision) is
unfortunate in the sense that the
city is losing its major employer
and image-maker," Eversley
; said. "But it also has good potenr;
tial in termTof making the city as
; a whole be more aggressive in !
; recruiting and developing other
i businesses, both large and
I small." ,
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j . As far as blacks arA?Qpcerned,
* the relocation of RJR's corporate
headquarters may help them
: realize that they cannot depend
1 on large corporations to always
? ; be around, Eversley said. "Our
flltlir* lipe ?r? /miccpIiiac
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ithan with somebody else," he
; said.
Northeast Ward Alderman Vi
; vian H. Burke said that when a
large business leaves, of course it
affects the community.
"But if you look at it in a
^positive way," she said, "as long
as we're able to keep Reynolds
' (Tobacco) here, there will be no
major problems. And we do have
< pther companies here - like Piedmont
(Airlines), which is expanding
and will hire 300
employees."
Mrs. Burke said there is no
I need to dwell on the loss of RJR
I Nabisco's corporate headI
quarters.
"We need to work and make
I something positive out of this,"
she said.
I East Ward Alderman Virginia
|K. Newell said that the relocation
will be a blow to the local
economy.
"We hate to ;?ee a corporation
of that magnitude go," Mrs.
Newell said. "Everyone knows
hat's going to have a negative
mpact, but hopefully it will turn
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Rome in and fill the void they will
The relocation will affect the
j|?ntire community, black and
Brhite, Mrs. Newell said, but it
^particularly will be felt by blacks.
"This will mean one more corgiporation
thai blacks won't have
opportunity to get jnore jobs
via/' she said.
jt' | Though she was disappointed
by RJR's board of directors'
jHjlfision to leave Winston-Salem,
|*Mrs. Newe'il said, she is even
fibre distur bed by the board's
Rcision to leave the corporate
Headquarters building on
eynolds Boulevard to Wake
orest University.
Mrs. Newell said she plans to
Imte a letter to RJR voicing her
oncerns.
Wilbert T. Jenkins, a local
iusinessman and manager of the
:ast Winston Shopping Center,
aid that the relocation may not
k1
change, said RJR Nabisco will be
missed in more ways than one.
"Of course, everyone is very,
very sad to see them go," she
said. "They really involved
themselves in the community,
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have a direct impact on the black
community.
"However, there will be a ripple
effect felt throughout the
black community," he said. "It's
truly going to be a loss to the
community and the state but one
that we obviously will have to adjust
to."
The loss of RJR Nabisco will
Steatlv affect small Hiicin*cc*c
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who may have supplied goods
and services to the company,
Jenkins said.
Charles E. Webb, executive
vice president of% the Greater
Winston-Salem Chamber of
Commerce, agreed.
While the RJR Nabisco headquarters
is gone, the remaining
tobacco company, with its 14,000
employees, will probably need to
contract for some services, Webb
said.
He encouraged small and
minority businesses to make sure
they are first on the bid list.
One local black businessman
said he's not sure what kind of effect
the relocation may have on
the black community.
"I don't have any ideas, good
or bad," said James "Junie"
Grace, president of the Minority
Business League.
Grace also said more changes
may be in store at Reynolds. "I
feel they may not be finished,"
he said.
Donna E. Oldham, editor of
Minorities and Women in
Business magazine and cofounder
of the Triad Business Ex
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tors.
"But I think now is the time
for us (blacks) to get together and
assess what we need to do to prosper.
I don't think this will
devastate us/
"Minority businesses have
traditionally withstood pullouts
by companies," she said.
Ms. Oldham said that the
Minority Business Exchange has
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ficials announced other changes
including the transfer of aboui
350 corporate employees from
the parent company to R.J,
Reynolds Tobacco Co., which is
being renamed R.J. Reynolds
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