Henkel achieved organic growth in 2025, profitability improved thanks to innovation and increased efficiency

“Significant challenges have characterized and continue to characterize our business environment – military conflicts, geopolitical tensions in many parts of the world, and trade and customs issues with far-reaching effects. The resulting uncertainties weakened consumer sentiment and industrial demand. With the war in the Middle East that began at the end of February, uncertainties have intensified significantly again,”

– pointed out Carsten Knobel, Chairman of the Board of Management of Henkel.

“Despite the still difficult economic environment, Henkel continued to develop successfully in 2025. We achieved and even exceeded our key targets and continued to transform our company. We achieved organic sales growth and significantly improved our company’s profitability. We want our shareholders to also benefit from the company’s success, which is why we will be proposing a dividend increase of 1.5 percent.”

“We succeeded in organically increasing our sales and further improving our profitability in both Adhesive Technologies and Consumer Brands. This was achieved primarily through innovations, ongoing cost-saving measures and efficiency improvements, as well as stronger development of higher-margin areas. The margin growth in Consumer Brands was primarily driven by the completed integration process, further savings and the continued enhancement of the product portfolio – i.e. targeted development and optimization. At the same time, we continued to invest in the future of both businesses: in strengthening our brands, in innovation, sustainability and digitalization. In addition, in the past three months, we have agreed on acquisitions in both businesses, which together represent a sales volume of around 1.2 billion euros, in order to purposefully strengthen and expand the growth potential of our areas. The results for 2025 clearly demonstrate that we are on the right track with our strategy for sustainable, targeted growth and are effectively preparing the company for the future. This is also reflected in our outlook for the 2026 business year: we expect further growth in sales and earnings, even if the start of the year is expected to be somewhat more subdued. I would like to thank all our employees for their outstanding performance. Thanks to their teamwork and extraordinary commitment, our company has once again successfully stood its ground in a challenging environment,” Carsten Knobel summed up the company’s performance.