Carsten Tilger, 42, will assume the position of Head of Corporate Communications at Henkel effective March 1, 2010. As Corporate Senior Vice President he will report directly to Kasper Rorsted, Chairman of the Henkel Management Board. Carsten Tilger will succeed Dr. Marcus Kuhnert, who is currently heading Corporate Communications on an interim basis in addition to his function as Chief Strategy Officer.

• Omsetningen falt med 7,3 % til 3 485 millioner euro
• Nedgangen i organisk omsetning redusert til 2,5 %
• Driftsoverskuddet økte med 191 millioner euro til 290 millioner euro
• Justert driftsoverskudd falt med 1,5 % til 385 millioner euro

Today, the Shareholders’ Committee of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA elected Simone Bagel-Trah as its new Chairwoman. Bagel-Trah takes over this office from Albrecht Woeste who has been a member of the committee since 1976 and became its Chairman in 1990. This coming Tuesday, Simone Bagel-Trah is also due to be elected Chair of Henkel’s Supervisory Board. This completes the transition from the fourth generation of the Henkel family to the fifth. The change at the top of these two supervisory bodies had already been announced at the Henkel Annual General Meeting of spring 2008.

Hvorfor ikke starte høsten med en ny hårfarge i naturens egen lek med farger fra Schwarzkopf Country Colors? Country Colors er Schwarzkopfs populære intensivtoning med naturlige og intense fargenyanser full av herlighet. Serien relanseres denne høsten med nytt design, ny dryppefri formel med macadamia-olje og andre naturlige planteekstrakter, og er nå også tilgjengelig i hele 5 nye farger.

Som først på markedet presenterer Henkel nye Loctite^® 2400 og Loctite^® 2700, to nye gjengelåsningsprodukter med medium og høy styrke som begge er utviklet med fokus på helse, miljø og sikkerhet (HMS). Det er en stadigt økende bevisthet omkring helse, miljø og sikkerhets på de fleste bedrifter og i organisasjoner. Henkel jobber aktivt med å forbedre de miljø og arbeidsmiljømessige egenskapene ved sine produkter men har fortsatt fokus på bibeholdt kvalitet i applikasjonene. Vår avdeling for forskning og utvikling tar et globalt ansvar når de fokuserer på å ta fram nye limprodukter som forbedrer helse- og sikkerhetsaspektene ved håndtering av kjemikalier på arbeidsplassen. Ett eksempel på dette er att disse to produktene som verken har helse eller miljø klassifisering.

Nå lanseres Schwarzkopf Essential Color, den første permanente hårfargen med opptil 80% naturlig baserte ingredienser, helt uten ammoniakk. Essential Color gir ingen kompromiss med resultatet, men dekker selv grå hårstrå effektivt. Den nye formulaen som inneholder naturlige råvarer fra litchifrukt og økologisk dyrket hvit te gjør håret mykt og gir det en intensiv og strålende glans.

• Salget reduseres med 5,0 prosent til 3 485 millioner euro
• Organisk salg tilbake med 5,3 prosent
• Driftsoverskuddet øker fra 113 millioner euro til 279 millioner euro
• Justert driftsoverskudd tilbake med 17,2 prosent til 308 millioner euro

International consumer goods manufacturer Henkel has garnered honors in two renowned US communications competitions. For the fourth time in a row, the company received the highest accolade in the roll of the world’s best with the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) conferring platinum on the 2008 Henkel annual report in the “Consumer Consumables – Household/Personal” category. And in the globally established Stevie International Business Awards, Henkel’s new training film explaining the company’s corporate branding strategy garnered gold.

Henkel has made a gain of 20 places in the annual survey of the world’s 500 highest-revenue companies published by the US business magazine Fortune. In the overall ranking, Henkel holds position number 448 compared to 468 last year. And for the first time, Henkel has also gained entry this year in the list of companies making the biggest jump in profits, taking 36th place in that ranking.

For more than 133 years, Henkel has been combining leading brand performance with responsibility toward people and the environment. In Cologne on May 19, Henkel received the 2009 Plus X Award – conferred as part of a major European technology competition – for its standing as an “Ecologically Committed Company”. Also recognized were the company’s new liquid laundry detergents marketed under the Terra Activ brand.

Endelig kommer en hårpleieserie som er utviklet av Schwarzkopf & Henkel sitt frisørteam i Hamburg, men tilgjengelig på massemarkedet. 1 mai åpner den første ”SYOSS frisørsalong og conceptstore” i Hegdehaugsveien 25 i Oslo. Salongen heter BeautyGarden by Syoss. Frisørene som jobber her vil bruke Syoss hårpleieserie på sine kunder.

For tredje år på rad har Armin Morbach samarbeidet med Schwarzkopf for å skape “Looks For You”- 4 Looks som viser hårtrendene for 2009. Armin Morbach har blandet de siste inspirasjoner fra mote og skjønnhets verden, dagens trender og de mest aktuelle Looks fra Hollywood. Slik har årets Looks blitt moderne, annerledes og “i tiden”. Schwarzkopf Looks for 2009 er trend bevisst, kul, individuell og de er mulig å bruke for alle. En av styrkene til Armin, i tillegg til hans kreativitet, er hans bevissthet på hvordan kvinner ønsker å se ut og hans behov for å vise individualitet. Som et resultat har han presentert fire ulike stiler som er et perfekt samarbeid mellom personlighet, farge og hårfrisyre. Beskjeden som Armin ønsker å sende ut gjennom Looks for you 2009 er enkel: Bli den personen du egentlig er. Reinvent yourself!

Sparkling Fixing Gel Spray - en diskokule som gir glans til partyhåret.
Beach Mat Surfer Look Matt Paste – krukken som fikser surferlooken i sommer.

Henkel has once again received public recognition as a socially responsible company: for the second time running, the Ethisphere Institute and Forbes Magazine, both of the USA, have included Henkel in their list of the “World’s Most Ethical Companies”. Only two German companies have made it to this list. Among the selection criteria are corporate social responsibility, management style and innovative strength.

Today’s Annual General Meeting of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA in Düsseldorf provided around 2,500 shareholders with an overview of the company’s development and performance in fiscal 2008.

Albrecht Woeste, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and of the Shareholders' Committee of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA announced at today's Annual General Meeting of the company that he would be retiring from these offices in September 2009 and would be proposing to the members of both corporate bodies that they elect Dr. Simone Bagel-Trah as his successor. This handing-over of the corporate baton from the fourth to the fifth generation of the Henkel family was first announced last year.

Markedslederen Poly Blonde endrer nå navn til Schwarzkopf Blonde. Samtidig relanseres serien med ny design og en ny og forbedret formula som bygger på konseptet ”Blond & Strong”. Alle produkter inneholder ett styrkende komplex med vitaminer og kalsium som styrker håret innefra og tilfører glans, for ett mykt og sunt hår.

U.S. retail giant Wal-Mart has selected Henkel to receive the “Wal-Mart Sustainability Award". Henkel was recognized as the one company demonstrating the most comprehensive approach to sustainability and making a substantial contribution to Wal-Mart’s sustainability strategy.

Loctite og Porsche Motorsport har lansert sitt teknologiske partnerskap for 2009,

Henkel Norden AB, med sterke varemerker som Schwarzkopf og Loctite, konstaterte en solid vekst i 2008,

People purchasing a branded Henkel product expect the highest quality. However, this is not the only demand satisfied by such products. For more than 130 years, Henkel has been combining leading brand performance with responsibility toward people and the environment. Last year, Henkel launched a broad-based, global sustainability initiative under the slogan “Quality and Responsibility”. Henkel is committed to open dialog in this regard – not only with the community of sustainability experts but with customers and consumers as well.

Global competition is posing new challenges for all market players. In meeting these challenges, it is becoming increasingly important to combine product performance with responsibility toward people and the environment. Henkel has already been working toward achieving sustainable development for more than 130 years. The company sees its sustainability strategy – which encompasses the entire value chain – as an opportunity to set itself apart from its competitors and offer added value to customers and consumers.

Forretningsresultatet gjenspeiler ervervelse av National Starch og salg av Ecolab

Henkel er offisiell sponsor for 2009 IIHF World Championship

Some things are just too amazing to be true. At least, that’s what some people think. Nevertheless, true they most certainly are! And at Henkel, the development hit list is constantly being replenished with product innovations that not only prove doubters wrong, but also occasionally turn the market on its head. Each year the “Fritz Henkel Awards for Innovation" are conferred for just that kind of “interference”. Named after the company's founder, appropriately these accolades are in recognition of the kind of genius and business acumen that he represented in his time and that Henkel’s employees are to this day encouraged to emulate.

Combining economic success with corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been a constant feature of Henkel’s business philosophy for over 130 years now. And in international terms, too, Henkel counts among the leading companies in this domain. So when it came to conferral of the first ever “European Corporate Responsibility Award” in Prague on February 5 this year, Henkel was once again among the finalists.

Innovasjon fra Schwarzkopf Gliss -

Energy efficiency and the climate compatibility of processes and products are among the key quality criteria of the future. Henkel has long been committed to maximizing energy efficiency in both production and the ensuing products. Now Henkel is also taking part in Germany’s “Product Carbon Footprint” pilot project with the aim of driving forward the development of appropriate methods for determining all climate-relevant emissions attributable to a product – reliable techniques that are capable of generating transparent and comparable results. The project participants have now presented a range of concepts for calculating and analyzing product-related green house gas emission balances.