Executive Committee Change

Embargo: Immediate Release

External Announcement

                 Reckitt Benckiser Executive Committee Change                  

Frank Ruether, SVP Human Resources, To Retire: Successor Announced

After a 13 year distinguished career at Reckitt Benckiser Frank Ruether, SVP
Human Resources (HR) and a member of RB's Executive Committee, is retiring from
the business, effective 1 July 2009. He is succeeded by Simon Nash, who joins
RB from Novartis Consumer Health Care.

Frank joined RB in 1996 and was made SVP HR and a member of the executive
committee in 1997. Frank was a key player in the 1999 merger of Reckitt &
Coleman and Benckiser. Post merger, he led the restructuring of the business
from a multi-local organisation into a global matrix organization of countries,
categories and functions. Importantly, he helped create RB's highly innovative
category development organization. Under his watch, RB has substantially
upgraded its bench of talent, so facilitating the company's succession
planning.

Simon Nash, currently global head of human resources, Novartis Consumer Health,
is announced as Reckitt Benckiser SVP HR. Simon has been with Novartis for
nearly 10 years and prior to that worked for Fortune Brands, Kraft, Mars and P&
G, and has worked in Switzerland, US and UK.

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For further information contact:

Andraea Dawson-Shepherd, Global Director Corporate Communication and Affairs
Reckitt Benckiser Group plc, [phone]

Notes to Editors: About Reckitt Benckiser

Reckitt Benckiser is a world leader in household, health and personal care.

It is a FTSE top 15 company and since 2000 net revenues have doubled and the
market cap has quadrupled. Today it is the global No 1 or No 2 in the majority
of its fast-growing categories, driven by an exceptional rate of innovation

- near 40% of revenue comes from innovations launched in the prior 3 years. It
has a strong portfolio led by 17 global powerbrands which are: Finish, Lysol,
Dettol, Vanish, Woolite, Calgon, Airwick, Harpic, Bang, Mortein, Veet,,
Nurofen, Clearasil, Strepsils Gaviscon, Mucinex and French's, and they account
for over two thirds of its net revenue.

Reckitt Benckiser people are at the heart of the company's success. They have
an intense drive for progress and action and a desire to outperform wherever
they focus, including in CSR where the Company has the most ambitious corporate
responsibility programme in the industry through its Carbon 20 initiative.

Headquartered in the United Kingdom, the Company employs 23,000 people
worldwide, with operations in 60 countries and sales in 180 countries.

For more information visit RECKITTBENCKISER.COM