Holding in Company

Reckitt Benckiser PLC
2 January 2001


Schedule 10 - Notification of Major Interests in Shares

1   Name of company:
Reckitt Benckiser plc

2   Name of shareholder having a major interest:
Joh.A Benckiser GmbH

3   Please state whether notification indicates that it is in respect of
holding of the shareholder named in 2 above or in respect of a non-beneficial
interest or in the case of an individual holder if it is a holding of that
person's spouse or children under the age of 18:
As in 2 above

4   Name of registered holder(s) and, if more than one holder, the number of
shares held by each of them:
Blydenstein Nominees Limited holds the 102,830,415 shares owned by
Joh.A.Benckiser GmbH.  
Joh.A Benckiser GmbH also owns Reckitt Benckiser Holdings BV 'A' Shares.
13,655,000.**See Additional Information.


5   Number of shares/amount of stock acquired:
n/a

6   Percentage of issued class:
n/a

7   Number of shares/amount of stock disposed:
n/a

8   Percentage of issued class:
n/a

9   Class of security:
Ordinary Shares

10  Date of transaction:
29 December 2000 ** SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

11  Date company informed:
29 December 2000

12  Total holding following this notification:
102,830,415

13  Total percentage holding of issued class following this notification:
24.97% **SEE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

14  Contact name for queries:
P J Wilson

15 Contact telephone number:
01753 746678

16  Name of company official responsible for making notification:
P J Wilson  Assistant Secretary

17  Date of notification:
2 January 2001



Additional Information:
 ** Joh.A.Benckiser GmbH became interested in the single Special Voting Share
of 10p in the Company on 3 December 1999. The Special Voting Share is
registered in the name of JAB Trustee Company Limited. The Special Voting
Share carries the right to exercise 68,275,000 votes at general meetings of
the Company. Joh.A.Benckiser GmbH is entitled to require JAB Trustee Company
Limited to exercise the votes attaching to the Special Voting Share in
accordance with the instructions of Joh.A.Benckiser GmbH.

Joh.A.Benckiser GmbH is also interested in 13,655,000 'A' Shares in Reckitt
Benckiser Holdings BV which it is entitled to exchange for 68,275,000 new
ordinary shares in the Company.

Joh.A.Benckiser GmbH would therefore, assuming full exchange, be interested in
24.97% of the enlarged ordinary share capital of the Company.

29 December 2000
Joh.A Benckiser GmbH has notified the Company that it now owns directly all of
the 102,830,415 shares(being its existing interest in shares of Reckitt
Benckiser plc), having transferred the interest from its wholly owned
subsidiary Investment company.