Offer Update

Rentokil Initial PLC
26 May 2000


   RENTOKIL INITIAL SUCCESS IN DANISH TAKOVER OF RATIN

Rentokil   Initial  announces  that   it   has   received
acceptances of over 90% in its takeover offer  for  Ratin
in Denmark as detailed in the attached announcement.  The
offer  can  now  be  completed  under  Danish  compulsory
acquisition procedures.

Ratin is a Danish listed company, the sole asset of which
is  919 million shares in Rentokil Initial (38.2% of  the
present  share capital).  Under the takeover  offer,  919
million  new Rentokil Initial shares will be  issued  and
the shares held by Ratin will be cancelled.

Sir  Clive Thompson, Chief Executive of Rentokil  Initial
said:

'This  successful takeover offer means that  the  present
19,000   shareholders  in  Ratin   will   become   direct
shareholders  in  Rentokil Initial.   This  represents  a
strong  base of Danish, other European and North American
funds  which will provide Rentokil Initial with  a  broad
spread  of  international investors.   Our  future  plans
include  being  better appreciated  as  an  international
investment opportunity.  After all, our businesses  trade
in  40  countries  around the world and  it  is  entirely
logical,  therefore, that our shareholder base should  be
similarly widely spread.  We, therefore, plan to step  up
our  investor  relations programme in Continental  Europe
and North America.'.



The  following announcement was made by Rentokil  Initial
in Copenhagen earlier today:

The Copenhagen Stock Exchange               26 May 2000
6 Nikolaj Plads
DK-1007 Copenhagen K

Facsimile No. [phone]
                            
Acceptances of Rentokil Initial plc's Exchange Offer to
shareholders of Ratin A/S exceed 90 per cent.

Rentokil Initial plc ('Rentokil Initial') is pleased to
announce that valid acceptances of its exchange offer
(the 'Offer') for Ratin A/S ('Ratin') have been received
in respect of over 90 per cent. of the entire issued
share capital of Ratin, representing over 90 per cent. of
the voting rights of Ratin.

Following the extension announced on Wednesday, 24 May
2000, the offer period will expire at 4 p.m. (Danish
time) on Monday, 29 May 2000, whereupon the Offer will be
wholly unconditional, save for the admission to trading
on the London Stock Exchange of the new ordinary shares
of Rentokil Initial to be issued pursuant to the Offer,
which is expected to occur on Tuesday, 30 May 2000.

The Rentokil Initial ordinary shares will be issued to
accepting Ratin shareholders in accordance with the
following timetable:

31 May 2000    Last day of trading on the Copenhagen
          Stock Exchange of Ratin acceptance shares

9 June 2000    New Rentokil Initial ordinary shares
          expected to be issued in exchange for Ratin
          acceptance shares

Shareholders in Ratin who have not accepted the Offer by
4.00 p.m. (Danish time) on Monday, 29 May 2000 will be
entitled to exchange their shares in Ratin for new
Rentokil Initial ordinary shares on the same terms as the
original Offer, pursuant to a mandatory offer procedure
which will be launched within four weeks.

Subject to the approval of the shareholders of Ratin at
an extraordinary general meeting, a compulsory purchase
procedure under Danish law will be initiated by Rentokil
Initial in respect of all outstanding Ratin shares.  This
will be for an exchange of shares on the same terms as
the original Offer.



Press enquiries:

Rentokil Initial plc
Sir Clive Thompson, Chief Executive
Charles Grimaldi, Corporate Affairs Director
[phone]


This announcement is not being and must not be
distributed or sent in, into or from Canada, Australia,
Japan or any state in the United States where the making
of the offer would be illegal under the laws of that
state (an 'Excluded State') (whether by use of the mails
of, or by any means or instrumentality of interstate or
foreign commerce of, or any facilities of a national
securities exchange of, Canada, Australia, Japan or any
Excluded State) and doing so may render invalid any
purported acceptance.