Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc

Sector: Soap And Other Detergents Except Specialty Cleaners Region: United Kingdom

Exchange/Ticker: OTC Bulletin Board: RBGPF | OTC Bulletin Board: RBGLY | Frankfurt Stock Exchange: 3RB | London Stock Exchange: RB

Company Description

Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc manufactures and markets branded products in the health, hygiene and home sectors. It sells a comprehensive range of products through over 60 operating companies into nearly 200 countries. The company's brands include air fresheners, household cleaners, laundry products, furniture polishes and dishwashing detergents. It also makes over-the-counter pharmaceuticals such as analgesics, antiseptics, flu remedies, and gastrointestinal medications and offers products for hair removal, denture cleaning and pest control. The company's business is structured through a matrix of three geographical segments: Europe and North America (ENA); Latin America, North Asia, South East Asia and Australia and New Zealand (LAPAC); and Russia and CIS, Middle East, North Africa, Turkey and Sub-Saharan Africa (RUMEA). These segments consist of a centralized category development, global sales, supply and support functions such as finance, human resources and information services. The group also has two non core businesses: RB Pharmaceuticals and Food. The central category development function is responsible for strategies, brand equity programmes and best practices, and new product development (including research and development and consumer and market research), for implementation by the geographical segments. The supply function is responsible for all procurement, production and logistics globally, and is directly responsible for the operation of the company's production facilities worldwide. Information services function is responsible for the company's global systems infrastructure and global systems, including enterprise resource planning systems. The RB Pharmaceuticals business is responsible for the development of the Subutex and Suboxone prescription drug business. The Food business owns a largely North American food business, the principal brands of French's Mustard and Frank's Red Hot Sauce. The company was founded in December 1999 and is headquartered in Slough, the United Kingdom.

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Executives

Rakesh Kapoor, CEO

Joined Reckitt & Colman in 1987, serving in various roles including Regional Sales Manager, North India, General Manager, Indian Southern Region and Regional Marketing Director, South Asia. In 1999, he was appointed Global Category Director, Pest Control. Following the merger, he assumed the role of, Senior Vice President, Home Care. He was appointed SVP, Regional Director, Northern Europe in 2001 and in July 2006, he was promoted to EVP, Category Development. Rakesh has the responsibility of global category management, research and development, media, market research. and strategic alliances. Rakesh became CEO in September 2011

Liz Doherty, Chief Financial Officer

Liz joined RB in January 2011. Before this, she was chief financial officer at Brambles Industries PLC for 2 years. With a market cap of Aus$9.7bn, the supply chain company operates across 45 countries and is a top 25 Australian stock exchange quoted company. Prior to Brambles, Liz spent 7 years at Tesco PLC, initially as international finance director and later as group international finance director when her role was expanded to include corporate accounts, group tax and treasury. She joined Tesco after a 22 year career with Unilever PLC where she had various country, regional and corporate roles mainly in finance but also in the supply chain function. Liz has worked in Australia, Spain, the Netherlands and Thailand, as well as the UK. Liz was a non-executive director at SABMiller PLC from 2006-2010.

Gareth Hill, Senior Vice President, Information Services

Gareth joined RB in 2006. He was previously Information Systems Director at Arcadia Group Ltd. Prior to Arcadia, Gareth was at IBM UK Ltd, Rex Trueform Clothing Ltd in South Africa and Arthur Andersen. He is a qualified chartered accountant.

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