Director Shareholding

RECKITT BENCKISER PLC

Directors' dealing

On 29 November 2002 the Trustees of the Reckitt & Colman Qualifying Employee
Share Ownership Trust established under a Trust Deed dated 24 September 1998
and operated through the company Reckitt & Colman QUEST Trustee Limited
transferred 3,915 ordinary shares to participants in the Reckitt Benckiser
Savings-Related Share Option Scheme.

All Directors of Reckitt Benckiser plc who are members of the Scheme are deemed
to be interested in the shares held in the QUEST by virtue of being potential
beneficiaries and disclose such interest in the shares of the Company.

The Directors concerned are: L H J Becht, C R Day.

Contact name: E A Richardson, Assistant Secretary

Telephone: [phone]