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Reckitt Benckiser is a multinational company specialising in the production and marketing of household cleaning products. The group also produces and sells personal care products and OTC remedies. The company is headquartered in Slough, England.
Sales are through two business units:[2018]
- 61.6%: Health: OTC remedies, wellness products, antiseptic products, dental care, gastric products, and analgesics (for treating pain, cough, and flu);
- 38.4%: Hygiene Home: household cleaning products, personal hygiene products, personal care products, fabric cleaning and care products (stain removers, detergents, fabric softeners, etc; surface cleaners; deodorant and anti-parasitic products; dish washing products; decalcifying salts, anti-corrosion products, stripping products, etc; laundry detergents, fabric softeners and ironing aids.
Corporate Political Engagement Rating:[1] Transparency International B
Brands
- Health
- Aerogard (insect repellant)
- Airborne (immune support supplement)
- Amopé (foot care)
- Bonjela (teething/ulcers gel)
- Dettol (antiseptic)
- Cēpacol (sore throat)
- Clearasil
- Codis
- Disprin (anti-inflammatory)
- Durex
- E45 cream (skin care)
- Fybogel (gastric products)
- Gavilast
- Gaviscon (indigestion remedy)
- Guardium
- Hc45 (hydrocortisone cream)
- Kukident (dental care)
- K-Y Jelly (personal lubricant)
- Lanacane (benzocaine)
- Lemsip (cold and flu remedy)
- Mucinex (cough remedy)
- Nurofen
- Optrex
- Scholl
- Senokot (laxative)
- Steradent (denture cleaner)
- Strefen (flurbiprofen)
- Strepsils
- Veet (hair removal)
- Woodwards Gripe Water
- Hygiene Home
- Air Wick (air freshener)
- Amphyl (disinfectant cleaner)
- Brasso (metal polish)
- Calgon (water softener)
- Cillit Bang
- d-CON (rodent killer)
- Destop (surface care)
- Electrasol: laundry detergents, fabric softeners, ironing aids)
- Finish/Calgonit
- Glass Plus (glass and surface cleaner)
- Harpic
- Lysol
- Mr Sheen (multi-surface polish)
- Mortein/Pif Paf (insecticide)
- Mycil
- O'Cedar: surface cleaners (disinfectant cleaners)
- Oxy (cleaning product)
- Pure
Sani Flush(toilet cleaner)- St Marc
- Vanish fabric cleaning and care
- Veja (cleaning products)
- Windolene
- Wizard
- Woolite
- Mead Johnson
- Mead Johnson (baby food)
- Enfamil
- Nutramigen
- Sustagen
Company
Total float: 93.0%
- 3.08% Morgan Stanley Investment Management Ltd
- 2.96% JAB Holdings BV
- 2.73% MFS Investment Management
- 2.58% Vanguard Group Inc
- 2.33% Magellan Asset Management Ltd
- 2.24% BlackRock Fund Advisors
- 2.11% Norges Bank Investment Management
- 2.10% MFS International (UK) Ltd
- 2.07% Legal & General Investment Management Ltd
- 1.96% Fundsmith LLP
- 1.96% Norges Bank Investment Management
Timelines
- Aug.2017: RB Food, including French's Mustard, Frank's RedHot Sauce and Cattlemen's Barbecue Sauce brands, was sold to McCormick & Company.ref
- Jul.2017: Reckitt Benckiser Group plc announced that it had entered into an agreement to sell its Food business, including the French’s, Frank’s RedHot and Cattlemen's brands, to McCormick & Company Inc.ref.ref
- Jun.2017: § Mead Johnson & Company LLC, a manufacturer of infant formula, was acquired from the Bristol Myers Squibb Company, becoming a new division of Reckitt Benckiser, with its Enfamil and Nutramigen brands joining RB's portfolio of consumer health brands.ref,ref Mead Johnson website
- Jul.2014: Scholl footwear business sold to German private equity firm Aurelius AG. Aurelius acquired the international rights for the Scholl footwear business, excluding North and South America; the rights to the Americas business went to German drugmaker Bayer AG, as part of its purchase of Merck & Company Inc's consumer health business.[2]
- Nov.2010: § SSL International plc was acquired.
- Seton-Scholl: Website.arch
- 1999: Reckitt Benckiser Group plc was formed by the merger of UK-based Reckitt & Colman plc and Netherlands-based Benckiser NV.
- 1987: Ecolab Inc sold its consumer goods operations, which marketed household products including Vanish stainer remover, and dishwasher detergents Electrasol, and Finish, Jet Dry, and Lime Away.ref
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ToDo: Bring the info from JAB into here
Mead Johnson & Company LLC
- See AR-2018 + CH
- Did Mead Johnson sell Phenix Cheese to Kraft? See link.
- meadjohnson.com
SSL International plc
ssl-international.com, SSL International plc See Talk page
References
- ^ Corporate Political Engagement Index 2018. The new index of 104 multi-national companies, many of whom regularly meet with govt, has found nearly 75% are failing to adequately disclose how they engage with politicians. Only one company received the highest grade, with the average grade being "E" – representing poor standards in transparency. Transparency International UK, Nov.2018.
- ^ Aurelius buys Scholl shoe business from Reckitt Benckiser. Reuters, Jul.21.2014.