EGM Adjournment

RECKITT & COLMAN PLC
9 September 1999

                      RECKITT & COLMAN EGM - ADJOURNMENT                      

Reckitt & Colman plc announces that it will adjourn the Extraordinary General
Meeting called for Friday, 10 September 1999 to approve the proposed change of
name for the Company. 

A condition of the merger, the approval of the transaction by the Federal
Trade Commission in the United States, has yet to be satisfied.  The
Extraordinary General Meeting will therefore be postponed to Friday, 1 October
1999 at 10.00 am at the Company's head office, 67 Alma Road, Windsor, Berks.


Enquiries:

David Saltmarsh                 01753 746676 
Company Secretary

Bobby Leach                     0171 329 0096 
Shandwick