Directors' Dealings

RECKITT & COLMAN PLC
18 October 1999


On 18 October 1999 the Trustees of the Reckitt & Colman Qualifying Employee
Share Ownership Trust established under a Trust Deed dated 24 September 1998
and operated through the company Reckitt & Colman QUEST Trustee Limited
transferred 877 Ordinary shares to participants in the Reckitt & Colman
Savings-Related Share Option Scheme.

All Directors of Reckitt & Colman plc who are members of the Scheme are deemed
to be interested in the shares held in the QUEST by virtue of being potential
beneficiaries and disclose such interest in the shares of the Company.

The directors are:-  Mr P L Darnton and Mr M F Turrell.