Press & Media Relations

Strong earnings growth in first quarter

05/08/2013

05/08/2013 - Düsseldorf, Germany / Rocky Hill, Conn.

Sales rise 0.6% to 4,033 million euros (organic: +2.5%)
Adjusted operating profit: +8.9% to 600 million euros
Adjusted EBIT margin: +1.2 percentage points to 14.9%
Adjusted earnings per preferred share (EPS): +10.3%* to 0.96 euros
Strong sales growth in emerging markets (organic: +8.2%)

Henkel reconfirms 2013 guidance

04/15/2013

04/15/2013 - Düsseldorf / Germany

At Henkel’s Annual General Meeting today, CEO Kasper Rorsted reviewed the company’s successful performance over the preceding four years and outlined Henkel´s new strategy and financial targets for the period through 2016. Referring to the challenging economic environment between 2008 and 2012, he said: “We stayed on track and implemented our strategy. Despite all the headwinds, we succeeded in achieving our targets and even exceeding them.”

Students from Chapman University will represent the United States at Henkel’s international competition in Shanghai, China

03/12/2013

03/12/2013 - Scottsdale, Ariz.

Students from Chapman University in Orange, Calif. will travel to Shanghai, China to compete in the sixth Annual Henkel Innovation Challenge, March 18-20. Elise Drakes and Greg Yudin, both pursuing MBAs, are the winners of the Henkel Innovation Challenge in the United States. Henkel is the company behind America’s best-known consumer and industrial brands including Dial® soaps, Purex® laundry detergents, Right Guard® antiperspirants and Loctite® adhesives.

Groundbreaking New Film Girl Rising Comes to Branchburg, NJ on International Women’s Day

03/08/2013

03/08/2013 - Branchburg, NJ

Today, on International Women’s Day, the UN Foundation’s Girl Up campaign and Henkel, the company behind America’s best-known consumer and industrial brands including Dial® soaps, Purex® laundry detergents, Right Guard®antiperspirants and Loctite® adhesives, are bringing a global movement to educate girls around the world to Branchburg, NJ with a screening of the widely-anticipated film Girl Rising. Hundreds of teens and community members are expected to attend the screening at Raritan Valley Community College. The event will feature a musical performance by rising pop music stars, Megan & Liz.

Henkel’s sales and earnings reaching record levels

03/06/2013

03/06/2013 - Düsseldorf, Germany / Rocky Hill, Conn.

Sales rise 5.8 percent to 16,510 million euros (organic: +3.8%)
Adjusted* operating profit: +15.1 percent to 2,335 million euros
Adjusted* EBIT margin: +1.1 percentage points to 14.1%
Adjusted* earnings per preferred share (EPS): +17.8% to 3.70 euros
Strong performance in the emerging markets (organic: +7.8%)
Proposed dividend: +18.8 percent to 0.95 euros per preferred share
2013 set to be another year of growth

Working together for sustainability

03/06/2013

03/06/2013 - Düsseldorf, Germany / Rocky Hill, Conn.

Henkel is publishing its latest Sustainability Report today. The focus of this 22nd issue is on the implementation of the sustainability strategy that the company presented in 2012. At the core of the strategy is the goal of achieving more with less. Henkel intends to triple its resource efficiency by the year 2030. To achieve this ambition, Henkel is actively involving its employees in its strategy implementation programs and working with its partners to drive sustainability along the various value chains.

New branding architecture for the Henkel adhesive technologies business serving industrial markets

02/19/2013

02/19/2013 - Düsseldorf, Germany / Rocky Hill, Conn.

Henkel will introduce a new branding approach for its industrial adhesive technologies business. The company’s brand portfolio has grown strongly over the past decades and has enabled Henkel to become the global market leader in adhesives, sealants and surface treatments. To improve the navigation through the brand portfolio, Henkel will now re-group its industrial business for adhesive technologies under five technology cluster brands, each of which will represent a cluster of specific technologies and applications.

Golden Boys: Henkel Athletes Win Big at X Games Aspen 2013

02/06/2013

02/06/2013 - Rocky Hill, Conn.

At X Games Aspen 2013, Henkel-sponsored athletes Levi LaVallee and “Monster” Mike Schultz struck gold in dramatic fashion. Not once. Not twice. But three times. For both extreme athletes, Loctite® adhesives and sealants played critical roles in keeping their snowmobiles in top performance shape and their bodies safe and strong through the physical demands of competition.

Henkel’s sustainable practices honored with more accolades

02/04/2013

02/04/2013 - Scottsdale, Ariz.

Henkel recently received several honors acknowledging its sustainability practices. The company, which names sustainability as one of its five corporate values, manufactures and markets many well-known North American brands including Dial® soaps, Purex® detergents, and Loctite® adhesives.

Henkel presents awards to outstanding suppliers

01/31/2013

01/31/2013 - Orlando, Fla.

At the 2013 American Cleaning Institute (ACI) Annual Meeting and Industry Convention, Jan. 28 through Feb. 2 in Orlando, Henkel recognized five suppliers for their outstanding cooperation. The “Best Innovation Contributor Award” was conferred to Novozymes and Dow Corning. Prize winners of the “Henkel Sustainability Award” were Monosol and Evonik Industries. The “Best Supply Performance Award” went to Ashland.

Henkel Sponsors Extreme Athletes in 2013

01/22/2013

01/22/2013 - Rocky Hill, Conn.

On January 24 through 27 at X Games Aspen 2013, Henkel Corporation will sponsor four extreme athletes and help them compete in the games by using Loctite® brand adhesives and sealants to keep their equipment in top performance shape. Athletes on the Team Loctite® roster include pro snocross racer and freestyle rider Levi LaVallee, pro snocross racer Kyle Pallin, pro adaptive snowmobiler Mike Schultz and pro snowboarder Sage Kotsenburg.