Announcements

RB Press Release - 14/07/11
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC appoints new Investor Relations Director

Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (RB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard Joyce as the new RB investor relations director, effective 1 September 2011. In this role Richard will report to Liz Doherty, chief financial officer. To facilitate Richard’s transition into his new role, Tom Corran, who retired from the RB investor relations role in 2008, will be returning to RB as a part-time consultant for the period of a year, effective August 2011.

Richard Joyce is well qualified to take on this new role as he is currently director financial reporting for the Group, a role he has held for 3 years. Previously he was finance director RB Nordic region, and prior to that senior manager internal audit at RB. Richard joined RB in 2002 from PriceWaterhouse Coopers where he worked in both the Sydney, Australia and London, UK offices

ENDS

Investor enquiries, contact:
Jo Speed,
RB +44 (0) 1753 217 800

Press enquiries, contact:
Andraea Dawson-Shepherd,
RB +44 (0)1753 446 447

David Litterick,
Brunswick +44 (0) 207 404 5959

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 fast-growing categories, driven by an exceptional rate of innovation – typically about one third 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, and they account for 69% of net revenue.

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 27,000 people worldwide, with operations in over 60 countries and sales in almost 200 countries.