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2025 Annual General Meeting

Annual General Meeting 2025

Our Annual General Meeting is taking place on April 28. All information and documents, as well as the link to the live broadcast, can be found in the press kit.

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Very good annual results 2024 demonstrate successful implementation of Purposeful Growth Agenda

Henkel presents the annual results for 2024

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Henkel makes further progress across all areas of its sustainability strategy

Sustainability report 2024

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Henkel at a Glance

Success with brands and technologies for almost

150 years

Employees from 126 different countries

around 47,000

Sales in 2024

21.6 billion euros

Henkel Adhesive Technologies

Henkel is the leading solution provider for adhesives, sealants and functional coatings worldwide.

Henkel Consumer Brands

Henkel Consumer Brands is our business unit covering consumer brands and products in the areas of Laundry & Home Care and Hair.

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Mar 11, 2025

Very good annual results 2024 demonstrate successful implementation of Purposeful Growth Agenda

Strong business performance in fiscal 2024
- Sales: 21.6 billion euros, good organic growth of 2.6 percent
- Operating profit ‏(EBIT)*: 3.1 billion euros, very significant increase of 20.9 percent
- EBIT margin*: 14.3 percent, outstanding improvement by 240 basis points
- Earnings per preferred share ‏(EPS)* significantly higher: 5.36 euros, +25.1 percent at constant exchange rates
- Strong free cash flow of 2.4 billion euros
Dividend increase in the double-digit percentage range proposed: 2.04 euros per preferred share ‏(+10.3 percent)
New share buyback of up to 1 billion euros decided
Implementation of Purposeful Growth Agenda further progressed
- Consumer Brands: Integration faster than planned, portfolio measures finalized, full savings to be realized already by end of 2025
- Adhesive Technologies: New set-up implemented in 2023 is paying off
- Ambitious climate protection targets: net-zero roadmap defined
Outlook for fiscal 2025: Poised for further top- and bottom line growth – with slow start into the year and acceleration in the course of the year
- Organic sales growth: 1.5 to 3.5 percent
- EBIT margin*: 14.0 to 15.5 percent
- Earnings per preferred share ‏(EPS)*: Increase in the low to high single-digit percentage range ‏(at constant exchange rates)

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Mar 11, 2025

Henkel makes further progress across all areas of its sustainability strategy

Climate action: reduction of CO₂ emissions in production per ton of product by 64 percent (base year: 2017)
Circular economy: use of recycled plastic in consumer goods packaging rises to 25 percent
Equal opportunities: significantly more employees take parental leave in 2024; share of women in management climbs to 42 percent
Fair working conditions: new additional assessment introduced to ensure living wages worldwide
Governance: first sustainability report applying all content requirements of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards ‏(ESRS)

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Henkel´s highlights at the Battery Show Europe 2025

Apr 24, 2025 - Press Release

Henkel launches AI-generated virtual adhesives, Mica replacement safety coatings, structural adhesive debonding and cutting-edge electrode coating

At ‘The Battery Show Europe’ ‏(June 3-5, 2025, Messe Stuttgart, hall 10 – booth G10) Henkel will showcase its latest advances in adhesives, functional coatings, thermal management, and sealing solutions – key enablers of safer, more efficient, and more sustainable EV batteries. These core technologies, now enhanced with AI-powered simulation and debonding innovations, help OEMs and battery manufacturers reduce development cycles and costs, enhance performance and enable circularity across the battery lifecycle.

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The Sonderhoff DM80 Static Mix dispensing machine – the mobile workstation for processing and dispensing of highly filled, abrasive and highly viscous Loctite 2K epoxy structural adhesives.

Apr 15, 2025 - Press Release

Precise dosing for safety-relevant components with the new Sonderhoff DM80 Static Mix dosing machine

The aviation industry is facing a major upheaval. In addition to new solutions for decarbonization and innovations for digitalization, manufacturers and suppliers are increasingly working on automation in aircraft production.

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