Holding in Company,etc

Rentokil Initial PLC
4 September 2000



        RENTOKIL INITIAL plc ('Rentokil Initial')
                            
        Notification of major interest in shares

Under  the  Companies  Act 1985  (as  amended),  Rentokil
Initial  now gives formal notice that the shares held  by
its  subsidiary,  Ratin  A/S, have  been  cancelled  and,
accordingly, Ratin A/S no longer has an interest  in  any
shares in Rentokil Initial.  The 102,120,957 shares  held
by Sophus Berendsen A/S now represent 4.7 per cent of the
issued share capital of Rentokil Initial.

                Share buy back programme

Rentokil  Initial  has posted a Circular  and  Notice  of
Extraordinary General Meeting to shareholders, to approve
a new authority to make further market purchases of up to
15 per cent of its own shares.  The Extraordinary General
Meeting will be held at the office of Denton Wilde Sapte,
One  Fleet  Place, London EC4M 7WS at 4.00 p.m.  on  25th
September 2000.