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How a $60mn damages verdict is piling pressure on Reckitt
...Shares in the group have fallen more than a quarter over the past year. The company’s push into baby formula through the acquisition of Mead Johnson is widely seen to have been a failure....
March 22, 2024
LexReckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Reckitt’s baby formula woes will stoke calls for a break-up Premium content
...Yet Friday’s verdict puts the group in a tough spot....
March 18, 2024
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Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Reckitt chief vows to overturn baby formula verdict
...Shares in the consumer goods group fell 15 per cent on Friday last week as investors digested the news that a court in Illinois had instructed Reckitt to pay $60mn in damages to a mother who said her baby...
March 18, 2024
Retail & Consumer industry
Reckitt shares plunge after $60mn damages over baby formula
...Reckitt’s $17bn acquisition of Mead Johnson in 2017 has been rocky....
March 15, 2024
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Reckitt shares tumble on sales drop and Middle East probe hit
...“The restatement for unrecognition of trade spending . . . will not help confidence in controls at [the] group given historic similar issues as well,” analysts at Jefferies said....
February 28, 2024
Investments
Investors’ Chronicle: Bytes Techonology, Reckitt Benckiser, ScS
...Reckitt Benckiser’s surprise announcement of a £1bn share buyback programme was not enough to satisfy investors on update day, with the consumer goods group’s shares slipping after it reported worse than...
October 27, 2023
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Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Democrats question Reckitt Benckiser’s plan to sell baby formula unit
...Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is reported to be among the private equity groups that have submitted bids for the unit, which UK-based Reckitt put on the block earlier this year....
June 22, 2022
LexReckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Reckitt Benckiser: too many sterile quarters leave share price flat Premium content
...Over the past five years, the group’s top line has compounded at 3.6 per cent annually, according to S&P Capital. Operating profit has hardly shifted....
August 23, 2023
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
US regulator warns Reckitt on baby formula manufacturing standards
...Last year, Reckitt was considering a sale of its US infant nutrition business, Mead Johnson, following the disposal of its China business to private equity group Primavera for $2.2bn in 2021....
August 31, 2023
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Reckitt sales volumes fall as customers tighten belts
...Reckitt’s like-for-like net revenue growth beat expectations at 6 per cent for the half year, driven by price rises and a £100mn innovation investment....
July 26, 2023
Indivior PLC
Indivior aims to move primary listing from London to New York
...Shares in the company, which was spun out of the consumer goods group Reckitt Benckiser in 2014, jumped almost 20 per cent in early trading, before settling up more than 16 per cent by 1pm in London....
February 22, 2024
Unilever PLC
Unilever sells slow-growing brands like Q-tips to private equity group
...In 2021 it acquired footcare brand Scholl from Reckitt....
December 18, 2023
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Reckitt Benckiser picks Kris Licht as new chief executive
...Reckitt Benckiser has picked an insider who is responsible for some of its biggest brands as its next chief executive, signalling the board of the UK household products group is seeking stability following...
April 26, 2023
Investments
Investors’ Chronicle: Unite Group, Travis Perkins, Reckitt Benckiser
...Prices rose by 15 per cent group-wide, but volumes weakened by 6 per cent....
March 3, 2023
Executive Pay
UK boards and investors push for higher CEO pay to bridge gap with US
...When Laxman Narasimhan gave up his $7.5mn role as head of UK-listed household products group Reckitt Benckiser, he went on to run US coffee chain Starbucks for up to $28mn a year....
March 2, 2024
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Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Reckitt Benckiser’s sales volumes slide as demand for disinfectant wanes
...Shares in the group rose 0.45 per cent to £57.88 in early trading on Wednesday....
March 1, 2023
Tesco PLC
Tesco appoints City veteran Gerry Murphy as new chair
...Murphy, who chairs luxury brand Burberry and food group Tate & Lyle, will join the UK’s largest supermarket in September....
July 1, 2023
Personal & Household Goods
Consumer goods groups face retailers’ resistance over higher prices
...“Most of the price was taken last year,” said Nicandro Durante, Reckitt’s chief executive. “I don’t see a lot of price rises going forward in 2023.”...
May 13, 2023
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Households forgo air fresheners and vitamins in cost of living squeeze
...Households are forgoing air fresheners and vitamins during the cost of living squeeze, Reckitt Benckiser said on Wednesday, becoming the latest consumer goods group to post a decline in sales volumes....
October 26, 2022
Pharmaceuticals sector
Surge in colds and flu boosts medicine sales
...Consumer groups have also invested in vitamins, minerals and supplements, which sold heavily in the acute phase of the pandemic but have since pulled back....
January 3, 2023
LexReckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Reckitt Benckiser: surprise CEO departure causes market shivers Premium content
...Reckitt has turned to one of its senior board members Nicandro Durante as an interim choice while the group searches for a replacement....
September 1, 2022
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC
Reckitt Benckiser chief Laxman Narasimhan to step down
...$18bn acquisition of baby milk group Mead Johnson....
September 1, 2022
Starbucks Corp
Starbucks names departing Reckitt Benckiser chief as next CEO
...Starbucks’s appointment of the 55-year-old outsider came hours after Reckitt, the UK consumer goods group behind Durex condoms and Dettol and Lysol cleaning products, surprised investors with the news that...
September 1, 2022
LexHaleon
Haleon/Reckitt Benckiser: Covid offers cold cure makers a long-lasting boost Premium content
...That has made for what UK consumer health group Haleon — spun out of GSK last week — cheerfully describes as a “strong” cold and flu season....
July 27, 2022
Health sector
Reckitt gains from rising medicine sales as Covid-19 beds in
...Reckitt also gained from pushing up prices for its products by 6 per cent to help pass on steep rises in commodity and transport costs, a similar rise to companies including dairy group Danone....
July 27, 2022

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