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RB Press Release - 23/11/10
Reckitt Benckiser appoints new Chief Financial Officer

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC (RB) announces it is appointing Liz Doherty as chief financial officer (CFO).

Liz, who is British, was CFO at Brambles Industries PLC for 2 years. A top 25 company on the Australia stock market, the supply chain and information management solutions provider has a market cap of Aus$9.7bn and operates across 45 countries. Prior to Brambles, Liz was the number 2 in the finance function at Tesco PLC where she was group international finance director with additional responsibility for corporate accounts, group tax and treasury. She was 7 years at Tesco PLC, having joined from Unilever PLC, where she had a 22-year career. She has 14 years international experience having worked in Australia, Spain, the Netherlands and Thailand.

Liz has been a non-executive director of SABMiller PLC since 2006, a role from which she will be standing down ahead of joining RB.

Commenting on her appointment, RB chief executive, Bart Becht, says, “I am delighted to welcome Liz. She has excellent international, consumer and listed company experience. In addition she is a great cultural fit for RB showing the focus and drive that RB looks for.”

Liz Doherty will join RB in January 2011 and have a period of handover with Colin Day the outgoing CFO.

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Notes to Editors
Reckitt Benckiser (RB) is a world leader in household, health and personal care.

It is a FTSE top 25 company and since 2000 net revenues have doubled and the market cap has quadrupled. Today it is the global No 1 or No 2 in the majority of its fastgrowing categories, driven by an exceptional rate of innovation – typically about 35% of net revenue comes from innovations launched in the prior 3 years. It has a strong portfolio led by 19 global powerbrands which are: Finish, Lysol, Dettol, Vanish, Woolite, Durex, Calgon, Airwick, Harpic, Bang, Mortein, Veet, Nurofen, Clearasil, Strepsils, Gaviscon, Mucinex, Scholl and French’s.

RB people are at the heart of the company’s success. They have an intense drive for progress and action and a desire to  outperform wherever they focus, including in CSR where the company has the most ambitious corporate responsibility programme in the industry through its Carbon 20 initiative.

Headquartered in the United Kingdom, the company employs about 25,000 people worldwide, with operations in over 60 countries and sales in almost 200 countries.

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