Reckitt Benckiser's ex-global CEO Rakesh Kapoor launches India fundFormer CEO of Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc, Rakesh Kapoor, has launched the $100-million 12 Flags India Consumer Fund which will invest in e...
18 Aug, 2023, 10.05 AM IST
Reckitt kicks off $10 billion infant nutrition biz saleThe London-listed company, which sells brands including Enfamil formula, sent out marketing materials to potential buyers this month, the p...
27 Apr, 2022, 12.09 AM IST
Reckitt Benckiser weighs sale of baby food businessThe British consumer goods company, which sells brands including Enfamil formula, is reviewing the business globally and has been informall...
07 Feb, 2022, 11.47 PM IST
Reckitt to sell China baby-formula business for $2.2 billionReckitt will retain an 8% stake in the unit and sees net cash proceeds of about $1.3 billion, which it plans to use to reduce debt, the com...
07 Jun, 2021, 07.16 AM IST
Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc names Laxman Narasimhan as global CEONarasimhan to replace another Indian, Rakesh Kapoor, at the British firm.
13 Jun, 2019, 06.45 AM IST
Kellogg, Reckitt Benckiser join queue for a glass of HorlicksKellogg and Reckitt Benckiser are the latest entrants in the race to acquire the consumer nutrition biz.
21 Aug, 2018, 05.43 PM IST
Despite ban, marketing of hazardous breast-milk substitutes stays rampantIn India, ironically, Nearly half the infants under six months are not exclusively breastfed a rate that has not improved substantially in ...
23 May, 2018, 11.20 AM IST
This $17 billion dilemma will make or break Reckitt's CEO Rakesh Kapoor: GadflyPfizer isn't the only route to solving Reckett's growth problem. Some are less obvious, but that's not an issue for Kapoor as he has a habi...
27 Dec, 2017, 01.22 PM IST
Reckitt Benckiser retains Media Agency InitiativeInitiative will continue to handle media planning and buying duties, including digital, for all brands under RB, including recently acquire...
25 Dec, 2017, 12.53 AM IST
Reckitt Benckiser elevates India MD Nitish Kapoor to global leadership roleKapoor, who led the India operations for four years and was also RB’s senior vice-president for South Asia, will now head the company’s hea...
08 Nov, 2017, 11.00 PM IST
Gurveen Singh to head Reckitt Benckiser's Global HRIndia-born Gurveen Singh, currently RB’s head of HR for developing markets based in Dubai, will succeed Deborah Yates.
05 Sep, 2017, 11.50 PM IST
Horlicks plays on price points as Nestle, Danone and Abbot bring fight to its doorWhile India is the second largest country after the US in terms of topline for GSK Consumer, the Gurgaon-based firm continues to depend hea...
21 Mar, 2017, 01.02 AM IST
James Franco's adult drama 'The Deuce' gets series order at HBOThe show follows the legalisation and subsequent rise of the adult industry in New York's Times Square in the early 1970.
20 Jan, 2016, 11.38 AM IST
- Nestle close to buying Pfizer's infant nutrition business for $10 billion
Nestle, the world's biggest food group, is closing in on a deal to buy Pfizer's infant nutrition business for up to $10 billion to boost it...
19 Apr, 2012, 03.47 AM IST
- Danone shares firm after Wahaha deal
Shares in global food industry giant Danone rose by 1.23 percent on Wednesday after an announcement that it had reached an amicable settlem...
30 Sep, 2009, 05.22 PM IST
- Middle East IPOs raise $83.6 m in Q1 of 2009; down 2.1%
Companies in the Middle-East raised $83.6 million through two IPOs in the first quarter of this year, a 97.9 per cent decline from that rai...
23 Apr, 2009, 03.18 PM IST
- Bristol-Myers to shut half of its plants in 3 years
Apart from plant shutdowns, the company plans to lay off about 4,300 employees in a broad restructuring aimed at cost savings of $1.5 b by ...
07 Dec, 2007, 01.11 AM IST