Henkel's virtual Annual General Meeting took place on April 4.

All information and documents can be found in this press kit.

• Around 110,000 tons per year of fossil-based ingredients will be substituted with renewable carbon sources using BASF’s certified biomass balance approach.
• The measure will ramp up quickly and avoid around 200,000 tons of CO₂ emissions in total.

Henkel Adhesive Technologies as a global leading supplier for adhesives, sealants and functional coatings has announced the winner of its ‘Seal the Cycle’ initiative. With this international open innovation call in collaboration with Chile Global Ventures, the venture capital arm of Fundación Chile, the partners aimed to find technology solutions enabling the recycling or reusing of the millions of silicone cartridges for adhesives and sealants applications marketed around the globe annually. The initiative is complementary with Henkel´s sustainability ambitions and underlines the company´s commitment to further drive progress towards a circular economy.

Two more German Henkel sites have achieved significant milestones in the area of sustainability: The Laundry & Home Care production in Düsseldorf and the Beauty Care production site in Wassertrüdingen, Bavaria, have been converted to operate with 100 percent CO₂-neutral energy. Henkel aims to make its entire production worldwide climate-positive by 2030.

• Good business performance in 2021 in challenging market environment:
  • Group sales reach 20.1 billion euros, +7.8 percent organic growth
  • Operating profit* increases to 2.7 billion euros, +4.2 percent
  • EBIT margin* on prior-year level: 13.4 percent
  • Earnings per preferred share ‏(EPS)*: 4.56 euros, +9.2 percent adjusted for currency effects
  • Good free cash flow of 1.5 billion euros, net financial position significantly improved
• Proposed dividend on prior-year level: 1.85 euros per preferred share
• Outlook 2022 and mid- to long-term financial ambition unchanged
• Consistent implementation of agenda for Purposeful Growth since 2020
• Key measures to take strategic growth agenda to next level:
  • Integration process of Laundry & Home Care and Beauty Care to one multi-category platform with around 10 billion euros sales started
  • Further portfolio optimization planned in the consumer goods business
  • Share buyback program with a volume of up to 1 billion euros started
  • Venture Fund II with a total volume of 150 million euros
  • New sustainability strategy and ambitions

• Strong performance and improvements across key dimensions in 2021
• Evolved sustainability strategy: 2030+ Sustainability Ambition Framework
• Introducing new ambitions, including moving up climate positivity in production from 2040 to 2030

Henkel published its 2021 Annual & Sustainability Reports on February 23, 2022. In addition to the live webcast of the conference call, press releases, reports and accompanying information are available for download on this page.

36 cosmetics and personal care companies as well as professional associations have joined forces to form the EcoBeautyScore Consortium, aiming to develop an industry-wide environmental impact assessment and scoring system for cosmetics products.

Henkel has entered a strategic partnership with RWTH Aachen University’s Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components ‏(PEM Motion GmbH) to collaborate on research projects in the field of e-mobility. By building a strong partnership between industry and academia, the organizations will pioneer next generation battery technologies, explore material requirements for their realization and in the development of safer and more sustainable batteries. The cooperation agreement was signed at Henkel’s Inspiration Center in Düsseldorf on February 4, by Dr. Christoph Deutskens, CEO of PEM Motion, Professor Achim Kampker, head of the chair “Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components” ‏(PEM) of RWTH Aachen University and Partner at the spin-off PEM Motion, and George Kazantzis, Corporate Vice President Adhesive Technologies, Automotive Components at Henkel.