Reckitt & Colman
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| Public limited company | |
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| ISIN | GB00B24CGK77 |
| Industry | Consumer goods |
| Founded | 1814 (J&J Colman) 1823 (Benckiser) 1840 (Reckitt & Sons) 1938 (merger of Reckitt & Sons and J&J Colman) 1999 (merger of Reckitt & Colman and Benckiser) |
| Founder |
Johann Benckiser Isaac Reckitt |
| Headquarters | Slough, England, UK |
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Key people
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Adrian Bellamy (Chairman) Rakesh Kapoor (CEO) |
| Products | Cleaning products Consumer healthcare products Condiments Personal care products |
| Revenue | £9.891 billion (2016) |
| £2.410 billion (2016) | |
| £1.836 billion (2016) | |
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Number of employees
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35,000 (2017) |
| Website | www |
Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (RB) (: ) (
listen ) is a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, England. It is a producer of health, hygiene and home products. It was formed in 1999 by the merger of the UK-based Reckitt & Colman plc and the Netherlands-based Benckiser NV.
RB's brands include French's Mustard, the antiseptic brand Dettol, the sore throat medicine Strepsils, the hair removal brand Veet, the immune support supplement Airborne, the air freshener Air Wick, Calgon, Clearasil, Cillit Bang, Durex, Lysol, Mycil and Vanish.
RB is listed on the and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
Johann Benckiser founded a business in Pforzheim, Germany in 1823. Its main products were industrial and consumer goods industrial chemicals. Ludwig Reimann, a chemist, joined the business in 1828 and married Benckiser's daughter. Benckiser died in 1851 and the business came under Reimann's ownership. Reimann opened a new chemical plant and, in 1858, moved it to Ludwigshafen. Under Reimann's descendants the business grew rapidly in the latter half of the 20th century: it acquired Coty, Inc., a North American beauty products manufacturer, in 1992. Benckiser's other products included Vanish and Cillit Bang. It went public in 1997.
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