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The Apprentice final: How the winners would have fared at Reckitt Benckiser

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

I love watching The Apprentice, not only because it’s entertaining TV but because the challenges and skills tested are all in a day’s work at Reckitt Benckiser. However I won’t say the calibre of people is the same! There’s no way you’d find anyone at RB not knowing their gross from their net profit. Here, the [...]

Graduate Assessment Centre

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Five years after going through the RB Graduate Assessment centre myself I participated as one of the Assessors yesterday. It felt odd being on the other end of the process but I thoroughly enjoyed it and it gives me great satisfaction to know I’ve inputted into this year’s intake. We deliberated hard on a couple [...]

Getting to Market in Record Time

Monday, June 1st, 2009

I was on the edge of my seat for two weeks awaiting the verdict of whether our proposal was accepted by the Board…and it wasn’t. I only had a few minutes to feel disappointed and then in true RB style now working at lightning pace to deliver a new initiative (to meet the winter cold [...]

Welcome to our blog

Monday, May 18th, 2009

These last couple of weeks have been extra busy due to the Swine Flu situation. I look after the Strepsils brand which is a sore throat product and there has been a viral joke email making the rounds about Strepsils. We obviously didn’t create this and wouldn’t ever take advantage of a serious health risk. [...]