Reckitt is rebranding as Reckitt, which is the only name most people ever called it anyway, despite almost 12 years of trying to make people use the name RB.
In 2009, the company last tried to change its handle, then to RB. That came 10 years after the merger of British Reckitt & Colman and Dutch Benckiser formed Reckitt Benckiser. At the time, journalists, analysts, investors and everyday people on the street pretty much just called it Reckitt for short. And despite corporate efforts to make the RB name stick, it never really did.
Senior management in 2009 came from the Dutch Benckiser side, so hearing the company constantly called Reckitt rankled a bit. But longtime CEO Bart Becht stepped aside in favor of Laxman Narasimhan, from the Reckitt side of the business, two years ago. And the company is now giving in to the inevitable. Reckitt becomes the official name today, the company said in a release.