Henkel
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| Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien with Aktiengesellschaft as partner with unlimited liability | |
| Traded as | : HEN, HEN3 |
| Industry | Chemicals |
| Founded | 1876 |
| Headquarters | Düsseldorf, Germany |
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Key people
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Hans Van Bylen (CEO and Chairman of the executive board), Simone Bagel-Trah (Chairwoman of the Shareholders’ Committee & Supervisory Board) |
| Products | laundry and cleaning products, beauty care, adhesives and sealants |
| Revenue | €18.089 billion(2015) |
| €1.921 billion (2015) | |
| Profit | €2.645 billion (2015) |
| Total assets | $24.71 billion (2016) |
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Number of employees
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49,450 (average, 2015) |
| Subsidiaries |
Henkel Corporation The Sun Products Corporation |
| Website | www |
Henkel AG & Company, KGaA, is a German chemical and consumer goods company headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany. It is a multinational company active both in the consumer and industrial sector. Founded in 1876, the DAX 30 company is organized into three globally operating business units (laundry & home care, beauty care, adhesive technologies) and is known for brands such as Loctite, Persil, and Fa amongst others.
In the fiscal year 2015, Henkel reported sales of 18.1 billion euros and an operating profit of 2.9 billion euros. More than 80 percent of its about 50,000 employees work outside of Germany.
The Henkel company operates in three business areas:
Henkel's most famous brand is Persil, introduced in 1907, the first commercial "self-activated" laundry detergent, which means a bubbles forming bleach (sodium perborate) with a soap component (silicate). The abbreviation of the names of the two main components perborate and silicate compose the product name.
Other laundry & home care brands include Purex washing powder and liquid laundry detergent, Sun liquid laundry detergent, Vernel/Silan fabric softener, Somat/Glist dishwasher tablets, and Pril washing-up liquid. In the United States and Canada only (the brands elsewhere are owned by Unilever) All, Wisk, Snuggle, and Sunlight detergent and fabric softener brands are also Henkel brands. The brands owned by Unilever elsewhere, plus Sun, were acquired by Henkel through its acquisition of Sun Products in 2016.
Persil Abaya Shampoo or Persil Black is a liquid detergent that Henkel introduced to the Saudi Arabian market in 2007 and later to other Gulf Cooperation Council region markets. The company sells the liquid as a specialist detergent for abayas, the loose, traditionally black, robe-like garments worn by women in many Islamic cultures.
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