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Business
Consumer products: Reckitt & Colman purchase of Benckiser expected to spur competition with Unilever and Procter & Gamble.
July 28, 1999
California
After years of battling federal environmental officials, the maker of d-CON has agreed to stop producing for the consumer market certain rat poisons that have accidentally harmed children, wildlife and pets.
May 30, 2014
EPA bans d-Con rodent poison, citing safety concerns for children
Jan. 30, 2013
Opinion
Letters: Rat poison and human health
April 9, 2013
Britain’s Reckitt Benckiser agreed to buy U.S. cough and congestion medicine group Adams Respiratory Therapeutics Inc. on Monday for $60 a share in cash, or $2.3 billion, to mark its entry into the U.S. healthcare market.
Dec. 11, 2007
The chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser Group will serve under the coffee chain’s longtime leader for six months before taking over fully April 1.
Sept. 1, 2022
California officials may ban the sale of some super-toxic rat poisons to consumers on July 1, a California Superior Court judge in San Diego ruled Friday.
May 9, 2014
Britain’s 10 highest-paid chief executives earned a combined $128 million in the latest financial year, according to a survey of pay among FTSE-100 index companies.
July 22, 2002
World & Nation
The conservation charity founded by the second in line to the British throne keeps its investments in a bank that backs fossil fuels.
Aug. 19, 2022
California’s steps to limit sales of second-generation rat poisons is an important step.
March 26, 2014