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Reckitt CEO Focuses on Health, Looking Beyond Worst Year

Reckitt Benckiser separated its home-care and health businesses, sharpening its focus on brands such as Durex condoms and Enfamil baby formula after a seco...

Reckitt's Fading Star Calls For Boardroom Elbow Grease: Gadfly

Reckitt Benckiser Group, the maker of Cillit Bang, has appointed a new chairman. He has some cleaning up to do. Adrian Bellamy, longtime non-executive c...

Reckitt Benckiser Says Four Top Executives Leave Amid Overhaul

Reckitt Benckiser’s heads of information technology, human resources, marketing, and developing markets will leave in the company’s biggest man...

McCormick Says Wall Street Was Wrong About $4.2 Billion Deal

McCormick & Co. got slammed by investors last week for agreeing to buy the French’s food business for $4.2 billion, a price that Wall Street...

Reckitt Benckiser Sees Like-For-Like Revenue Down 2% In Q2

Consumer products group Reckitt Benckiser has posted a 2% decline in like-for-like revenue, at constant exchange rates, in the second quarter of the year....

Mustard At A Price That Would Make Anyone's Eyes Water: Gadfly

Mustard. It's the new hot thing. McCormick & Company Inc. has just agreed to pay a scorching $4.2 billion for Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc's food bu...

McCormick Buys Reckitt Benckiser Food Unit For $4.2 Billion

McCormick & Co. has agreed to acquire Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc’s food business for $4.2 billion – a deal that would add French&...

Unilever Needs A Little Secret Sauce For French's Deal: Gadfly

Unilever promised more focus and more financial discipline after the shock generated by Kraft Heinz Co.'s unwelcome takeover attempt in February. Making...