New IR Director

14 July 2011                                  

                               RNS ANNOUNCEMENT                                

                   RECKITT BENCKISER GROUP PLC APPOINTS NEW                    

                          INVESTOR RELATIONS DIRECTOR                          

Reckitt Benckiser Group plc (RB) is pleased to announce the appointment of
Richard Joyce as the new RB investor relations director, effective 1 September
2011. In this role Richard will report to Liz Doherty, chief financial officer.
To facilitate Richard's transition into his new role, Tom Corran, who retired
from the RB investor relations role in 2008, will be returning to RB as a
part-time consultant for the period of a year, effective August 2011.

Richard Joyce is well qualified to take on this new role as he is currently
director financial reporting for the Group, a role he has held for 3 years.
Previously he was finance director RB Nordic region, and prior to that senior
manager internal audit at RB. Richard joined RB in 2002 from PriceWaterhouse
Coopers where he worked in both the Sydney, Australia and London, UK offices

ENDS

Investor enquiries, contact:
Jo Speed, RB [phone]

Press enquiries, contact:
Andraea Dawson-Shepherd, RB [phone]
David Litterick, Brunswick [phone]

Notes to editors:
Reckitt Benckiser (RB) is a world leader in household, health and personal
care.

It is a FTSE top 25 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 -
typically about one third of net revenue comes from innovations launched in the
prior 3 years. It has a strong portfolio led by 19 global powerbrands which
are: Finish, Lysol, Dettol, Vanish, Woolite, Durex, Calgon, Airwick, Harpic,
Bang, Mortein, Veet, Nurofen, Clearasil, Strepsils Gaviscon, Mucinex, Scholl
and French's, and they account for 69% of net revenue.

RB 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 about 27,000 people
worldwide, with operations in over 60 countries and sales in almost 200
countries.

For more information visit RB.COM