Archive for October, 2009

Committed to making a big impact

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Reckitt Benckiser is known to most as the leader in the household cleaning segment which has several mega brands to its credit. It is also known as a company which has been committed to providing superior products to consumers.   However, few know of the company’s commitment to child welfare.   RB has been associated with [...]

Reckitt Benckiser wins innovation award from The Economist

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Last week RB received The Economist’s Innovation Award 2009 for Corporate use of innovation. With this award, The Economist recognizes people and companies for their creative and innovative thinking. Also known as the “Oscar of Innovation”, this award is the only one of it’s kind and it is a great honor for RB to receive [...]

Insights into R&D: Elaborating on my tweets

Monday, October 26th, 2009

    For those of you who follow me on Twitter ( @discoverRB -Edd), I’ve decided to write a blog post. This should give you a bit more insight into my job and what I’ve actually been up to recently, as it’s difficult to say much with only 140 characters.   I have two main [...]

Impacting the P&L the RB way

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Last week I had a really good training session in Germany. As I’m still Trainee in Germany and some of my trainings are planned in the long-run, so I was getting together with my ex-trainee colleagues and some other colleagues from the Netherlands and Austria for a training which is called “impacting the P&L (profit [...]

“Carbon20″ – Do you know what it means at RB?

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

  Hi everybody! I’m back here to talk about the environment again. In one of my recent posts on this blog I wrote about OHOP ( Our Home Our Planet) . The OHOP initiative is RBs front-facing consumer communication part of a global commitment to tackle climate change. If you want to read more about it, [...]