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...Democratic lawmakers are urging the top US antitrust enforcer to scrutinise a proposed sale of Reckitt Benckiser’s baby formula unit to a private equity group, warning that it “could shallow out” the market...
...Health was the best-performing category, with growth driven by the company’s “intimate wellness” brands — which include Durex, Queen V and K-Y — and improving performance in China....
...Benckiser Q1 trading update, Wabtec Q1 Thursday Global energy group BP holds its annual general meeting, an event often targeted by environmental campaigners EU: European Central Bank economic bulletin...
...Benckiser FY, Salesforce Q4, St James’s Place FY, Taylor Wimpey FY, TJX Q4, Universal Health Services Q4, Universal Music Group Q4 Thursday China: NBS manufacturing and non-manufacturing purchasing managers...
...Reckitt Benckiser has tapped company insider Kris Licht, a PepsiCo and McKinsey alum, as chief executive, to replace Nicandro Durante at the end of the year....
...Other consumer goods groups including Reckitt Benckiser, Procter & Gamble and Nestlé are due to report their earnings later this week....
...Reckitt Benckiser has reported the highest annual revenue growth in its history as the Covid-19 hygiene boom led to surging sales for its Dettol and Lysol disinfectants....
...The company’s consumer health division is part of a $270bn sector in which pharmaceutical groups compete with consumer goods makers such as Reckitt Benckiser and Nestlé....
...He led the company from 2009 until last year, shortly before he pleaded guilty to the charge, including when it was part of Reckitt Benckiser....
...But he also stressed that Reckitt Benckiser will not be able to depend on supernormal growth in these brands indefinitely....
...The result was an unexpected injection of energy for companies such as Reckitt Benckiser, Unilever and Procter & Gamble....
...Among consumer goods groups, several showed little change; Nestlé’s use of recycled plastic was static at 2 per cent and Reckitt Benckiser at 3 per cent....
...Hygiene mania prompted by the pandemic has led to soaring sales for companies such as Reckitt Benckiser....
...(FT) Constant Covid cleaning carries its own dangers Hygiene is having a moment, thanks to Covid-19 and the urge to sanitise, boosting brands including Reckitt Benckiser, which owns Dettol, Lysol and Harpic...
...That’s Reckitt Benckiser’s media office responding formally to President Spitball’s freeform jazz around the concept of internal bleaching....
...Lombard Integrating Mead Johnson’s baby food and nutrition business into Reckitt Benckiser has been harder than it looked and yesterday's writedown caps three years of earnings disappointments....
...Reckitt Benckiser’s $1.4bn settlement is by far the largest related to the opioid crisis — but it is quite different from the pending cases....
...Rubber gloves, face masks and hand sanitisers make up small parts of the portfolios of Reckitt Benckiser and Bunzl, whose fortunes are tied more broadly to global growth....
...Please sign up here Latest news Amazon has lost an appeal in a French court case brought by unions that argued the ecommerce group was not doing enough to protect warehouse workers Reckitt Benckiser said...
...Benckiser's addiction treatment business....
...By 1999, Benckiser had effectively undertaken a reverse takeover of the UK’s Reckitt & Colman, forming the household goods group we now know as Reckitt Benckiser....
...The departure — officially retirement — of Bart Becht, the former Reckitt Benckiser boss, as chairman this week revealed splits over strategy at the hyper-acquisitive investment vehicle of Germany’s Reimann...
...S&P on Monday revised its outlook on JAB Holdings to stable from negative, citing recent sales of shares in Keurig Dr Pepper and Reckitt Benckiser worth roughly €1.2bn as positive for credit metrics....
...In 1997, the family took Benckiser public and two years later engineered a merger with the British consumer goods group, Reckitt and Colman, to form Reckitt Benckiser....
...“The potential is massive because NotCo is not just a meat-replacement company or a milk-replacement company,” said Mr Sceti, who once ran frozen foods group Iglo and held senior roles at Reckitt Benckiser...
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