Harpic drives RB’s India sales
New Delhi, Feb. 24: British FMCG major RB Plc on Wednesday said the large contribution from markets like India, where consumption of its hygiene products such as toilet cleaner Harpic soared in the Covidimpacted 2020, helped it to grow 11.8 per cent to 13.99 billion pounds in the year.
The company witnessed a volume growth of 9.6 per cent in 2020, led by the strong performance of its disinfectant brands driving market penetration and share, said RB, which owns brands like Dettol, Lysol, Durex, Strepsils and Vanish.
"All geographic regions have grown, with the largest contributors to growth including the US, India and China," said RB (Reckitt Benckiser) in an earning statement.
Its leading disinfectant brands have seen exceptionally strong levels of penetration and brands as Dettol and Lysol are used in over 300 million households globally.
"In India alone, Harpic is now used in over 100 million homes, up by nearly
30 million compared to
2019, as a result of purpose-led marketing campaigns centred around behaviour change," the company said.
Lysol is now estimated to be present in over half of all US homes, while in Canada, its penetration is up over 1200 basis points over the past year.
"Mortein and Harpic also delivered growth in all their major geographies, with Harpic particularly strong in India," it said.
In 2020, RB's net revenue for the hygiene segment was up 19.5 per cent at 5.81 billion pounds.
Its popular brands as Dettol and sexual wellbeing brand Durex helped RB to get its net revenue from the health segment to go up by 12.1 per cent to 4.89 billion British pounds in 2020 on a like for like basis.
"Consumer demand for disinfectants drove strong demand for Dettol throughout 2020, with the brand growing over 50 per cent,” it said.
Surat, Feb. 24: Baroda continued their winning streak in the Vijay Hazare Trophy after beating Hyderabad by 110 runs in their Elite Group ‘A’ match here on Wednesday, courtesy Kedar Devdhar’s hundred and impressive show by the bowlers.
This is Baroda’s third win on the trot after they had defeated Goa and Tripura.
Put into bat at the Lalbhai Contractor Stadium, Baroda rode on Devdhar’s stroke-filled 131 to post a competitive 316/7 on the board, and then bundled out the opposition for
206, with Babashafi Pathan
(3/37) doing the bulk of the damage.
Devdhar was back among the runs as he tore apart the Hyderabad attack with his 139-ball innings, hammering 14 boundaries and two maximums. He and Smit Patel (35) added 79 runs for the first wicket. But Patel perished after being caught by B. Sandeep off right-arm medium pacer Ajay Dev Goud
(2/68).
Hyderabad could not capitalise on a 75-run strong start given by openers Tanmay Agarwal (34) and Tilak Varma (47) and suffered a middle-order collapse. Both the openers perished in quick succession as Hyderabad slipped to 83/2.
Baroda rattled Hyderabad by striking twice, first Ninad Rathwa ran out Himalay Agarwal
(17) and Babashafi Pathan then sent back Mickil Jaiswal (5). B. Sandeep (18) and T. Ravi Teja (19) weren’t able to convert their starts as Hyderabad found themselves reeling at 143/6. Hyderabad were eventually bundled out for
202.
BRIEF SCORES Baroda 316/7 in 50 overs (Kedar Devdhar 131, Krunal Pandya 55, Ajay Dev Goud
2/68, C. V. Milind 2/74) bt Hyderabad 206 in 42.2 overs (Tilak Varma 47, Tanmay Agarwal 34, Babashafi Pathan
3/37, Lukman Meriwala 2/39). Andhra 175 in 48.1 overs (Nitish Kumar Reddy 30, Siddarth Kaul 4/27, Barinder Sran 3/29) lost to Punjab 176 for 3 in 36 overs (Mandeep Singh 64 n.o, Abhishek Sharma 32, Prabhsimran Singh 32).