London-listed consumer giant Reckitt Benckiser has sold its Essential Home business to a private equity firm in a deal worth ...

Advent International will buy a 70% stake in Reckitt’s essential home business, which also includes brands such as Air Wick.

Reckitt announced that it would focus on these 'Powerbrands' and sell off home care brands it no longer considers ‘core’.

Reckitt has sold a majority stake in its Essential Home business to private equity firm Advent International in a deal valued ...

Reckitt said it will retain a 30% stake in the business, whose brands include Air Wick air fresheners and Cillit Bang ...

The buyer, U.S. PE firm Advent, was recently outbid by KKR in its pursuit of another Slaughter and May client, Spectris.

Shares in the FTSE 100 firm, which also owns Dettol cleaner and Nurofen painkillers, soared 10%, or 502p, to 5542p - a 17-month high.

I can't believe I'm writing this, because I never thought I'd see the day. But Barry Scott, of 'bang, and the dirt is gone' Cillit Bang fame has been axed him from the company's adverts and it's a ...

Cillit Bang/Reckitt Benckiser They promised us he'd be back and now, just over a year after Cillit Bang's Barry Scott was replaced by a younger, hotter model , it looks like he finally is.

However, Cillit Bang didn't let Barry go without a tribute of sorts, posting a mash-up clip that takes the piss out of the advertising campaign, with lines such as: "Hi, I'm annoying." ...

Household goods giant Reckitt Benckiser has agreed a deal worth up to $4.8bn (£3.6bn) to sell a majority stake in its Cillit ...

Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc agreed to sell most of its home-care business to private equity firm Advent International for an ...