Henkel
Adhesives and consumer brands · Germany
Henkel makes adhesives for industry, such as Loctite, and consumer brands such as Persil and Schwarzkopf, with about 47,200 employees led from Düsseldorf.
What makes it different
A founding family still holds the voting majority.
61.8%Ordinary shares in the family poolMar 2025
The Henkel family pools most of the ordinary shares, while the preferred shares are listed separately.
How big it is
How big is Henkel?
€20.5BRevenueFY2025
165Production sites2025
47,200Employees2025
How it makes money FY2025
Adhesives are just over half of sales.
- Adhesive Technologies52%€10.67B
- Consumer Brands47%€9.68B
- Corporate1%€151M
How the business works
Sell chemistry to factories and homes.
- 1Adhesives for 800+ industries
- 2Persil to Schwarzkopf
- 3Sell weaker brands
Factories buy on performance and shoppers on brand, so one chemistry base serves two different buyers.
Who owns it
- Henkel family share-pooling agreement61.8%
- BlackRock, Inc.3%
- Silchester International Investors LLP3%
CEO: Carsten Knobel
Who it competes with
Key moments
- 9-26Fritz Henkel founds Henkel & Cie in Aachen
- 1907Persil is launched
- 0-11Initial public offering of preferred shares
- 1-01Henkel acquires Schwarzkopf
- 1-06Henkel takes over Loctite
Sources
Every number on this page comes from Henkel's own reports.
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What Henkel tracks29 metrics
Employees
Countries where employees work
Production sites
Results, quarter by quarterwith a chart
Revenue
Profit
Margin
Where the money comes from5 regions
Europe
North America
Asia-Pacific
The full timeline19 moments
2020
2025
2026
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