Holding(s) in Company

TR-1 : (i) NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES


1.Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing  Reckitt Benckiser 
shares to which voting rights are attached :                          PLC        
                                                                                 
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):       
                                                                                 
N/A See additional information                                                   
                                                                                 
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                                      
                                                                                 
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in          
the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are              
attached                                                                         
                                                                                 
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                                 
                                                                                 
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification           Legal & General  
obligation :                                                   Group Plc (Group) 
                                                                                 
                                                                                 
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.) :               N/A        
                                                                                 
5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is         N/A        
crossed or reached :                                                             
                                                                                 
6. Date on which issuer notified:                               20 February 2007 
                                                                                 
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:                  Above 3% (L&G)  
                                                                                 

8. Notified details:
                    
A: Voting rights attached to shares                                           
                                                                              
Class/     Situation previous to     Resulting situation after the triggering      
type of    the Triggering            transaction                                   
shares     transaction                                                          
                                                                              
 if        Number    Number of       Number of  Number of voting      % of voting    
possible   of        Voting Rights   shares     rights ix                rights         
using      Shares    viii                                                          
the ISIN                                                                      
CODE                                 Direct     Direct    Indirect   Direct   Indirect
                                                   x         xi                      
                                                                              
Ord GBP    21,242,741 = 3.01%      24,500,964 24,500,964              3.41         
                                                                              
0.105263   (under S-198 on 03/01/2003)                                                                
                                                                              

 

B: Financial Instruments                                                      
                                                                              
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction xii                      
                                                                              
Type of    Expiration Exercise/      Number of voting rights that may  % of   
financial  date xiii  Conversion     be acquired if the instrument is  voting 
instrument            Period/ Date   exercised/ converted.             rights 
                      xiv                                                     
                                                                              
                                                                              
Total (A+B)                                                                   
                                                                              
Number of voting rights                    % of voting rights                
                                                                              
24,500,964                                 3.41               
                                                                              

 

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the 
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable xv:                  
                                                                               
Legal & General Group Plc (Direct and Indirect) (Group)                        
                                                                               
Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings) Limited (LGIMH)               
(Direct and Indirect)                                                          
                                                                               
Legal & General Investment Management Limited (Indirect) (LGIM)                
                                                                               
Legal & General Group Plc (Direct) (L&G) (24,500,964- 3.41% = LGAS, LGPL & PMC)
                                                                               
Legal & General Investment Management (Holdings)        Legal & General        
Limited (Direct) (LGIMHD)                               Insurance Holdings     
                                                        Limited (Direct) (LGIH 
                                                                               
Legal & General Assurance (Pensions Management)         Legal & General        
Limited  (PMC)                                          Assurance Society      
                                                        Limited  (LGAS & LGPL) 
                                                                               
                                                        Legal & General        
                                                        Pensions Limited       
                                                        (Direct)  (LGPL)       
                                                                               

 

Proxy Voting:                                                       
                                                                    
10. Name of the proxy holder:                                    N/A
                                                                    
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:     N/A
                                                                    
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights: N/A
                                                                    

 

                          Notification using the total voting rights figure of 
     13. Additional                           717,244,156                      
      information:                                                             
                                First notification under DTR Sourcebook        
                                                                               
14. Contact name:                             Helen Lewis                      
                                                                               
15. Contact telephone                        020 7528 6742                     
number:                                                                        
                                                                               

 

Notes to the Forms

               This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer and
to be filed with the competent authority.

               Either the full name of the legal entity or another method for
identifying the issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable and
accurate.

              This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) the
natural person or legal entity acquiring, disposing of or exercising voting
rights in the cases provided for in DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h);  (c) all the parties
to the agreement referred to in DTR5.2.1 (a), or (d) the holder of financial
instruments entitled to acquire shares already issued to which voting rights
are attached, as appropriate.

In relation to the transactions referred to in points DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h) , the
following list is provided as indication of the persons who should be
mentioned:

-               in the circumstances foreseen in  DTR5.2.1 (b), the natural
person or legal entity that acquires the voting rights and is entitled to
exercise them under the agreement and the natural person or legal entity who is
transferring temporarily for consideration the voting rights;

-               in the circumstances foreseen in DTR 5.2.1 (c), the natural
person or legal entity holding the collateral, provided the person or entity
controls the voting rights and declares its intention of exercising them, and
natural person or legal entity lodging the collateral under these conditions;

-               in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1(d), the natural
person or legal entity who has a life interest in shares if that person or
entity is entitled to exercise the voting rights attached to the shares and the
natural person or legal entity who is disposing of the voting rights when the
life interest is created;

-               in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (e), the controlling
natural person or legal entity and, provided it has a notification duty at an
individual level under DTR 5.1, under DTR5.2.1 (a) to (d) or under a
combination of any of those situations, the controlled undertaking;

-               in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (f), the deposit
taker of the shares, if he can exercise the voting rights attached to the
shares deposited with him at his discretion, and the depositor of the shares
allowing the deposit taker to exercise the voting rights at his discretion;

-               in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (g), the natural
person or legal entity that controls the voting rights;

-               in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (h), the proxy
holder, if he can exercise the voting rights at his discretion, and the
shareholder who has given his proxy to the proxy holder allowing the latter to
exercise the voting rights at his discretion.

              Applicable in the cases provided for in DTR 5.2.1 (b) to (h).
This should be the full name of the shareholder who is the counterparty to the
natural person or legal entity referred to in DTR5.2 unless the holdings of the
shareholder would be lower than 5% of the total number of voting rights.

               The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case of
an on exchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; in
the case of an off exchange transaction, date of the entering into an
agreement. 

The date on which threshold is crossed should normally be the date on which the
acquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takes effect.
For passive crossings, the date when the corporate event took effect. [DEL::
DEL]

              Please refer to the situation disclosed in the previous
notification, In case the situation previous to the triggering transaction was
below 5%, please state 'below 5%'.

viiIf the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold , the notifying party
should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, only that the new
holding is less than 5%.

 For the case provided for in DTR5.2.1(a), there should be no disclosure of
individual holdings per party to the agreement unless a party individually
crosses or reaches an Article 9 threshold. This applies upon entering into,
introducing changes to or terminating an agreement.

viii                   Direct and indirect

ix              In case of combined holdings of shares with voting rights
attached 'direct holding' and voting rights 'indirect holdings', please split
the voting rights number and percentage into the direct and indirect columns-if
there is no combined holdings, please leave the relevant box blank.

X              Voting rights to shares held by notifying party (DTR 5.1)

xi                     Voting rights held by the notifying party independently
of any holding of shares (DTR 5.2.1)

xii            If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the
notifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding,
only that the new holding is below 5%.

xiii             date of maturity / expiration of the finical instrument i.e.
the date when the right to acquire shares ends.

xiv                   If the financial instrument has such a period-please
specify the period- for example once every three months starting form the
[date]

xv             The notification should include the name(s) of the controlled
undertakings through which the voting rights are held. The notification should
also include the amount of voting rights and the percentage held by each
controlled undertaking, [DEL:i:DEL]nsofar as individually the controlled
undertaking holds 5% or more, and insofar as the notification by the parent
undertaking is intended to cover the notification obligations of the controlled
undertaking.

xvi             This annex is only to be filed with the competent authority.

xvii            Whenever another person makes the notification on behalf of the
shareholder or the natural person/legal entity  referred to in DTR5.2 and
DTR5.3.