EANS-News: Henkel reaffirms 2012 targets

Annual General Meeting 2010

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Company Information/Rorsted, Bagel-trah

Subtitle: Annual General Meeting 2010

Düsseldorf (euro adhoc) - At today´s Annual General Meeting of Henkel
AG & Co. KGaA, Kasper Rorsted, Chairman of the Management Board,
reaffirmed the company´s long-term targets and detailed the progress
made in pursuing its strategic priorities. "We are on the right track
to achieving our 2012 targets. Despite the significant challenges
that it presented to us, fiscal 2009 was still a year in which we
were able to make a number of material advances," Rorsted said. Dr.
Simone Bagel-Trah, Chairwoman of the Shareholders´ Committee and of
the Supervisory Board, made a point of thanking both the Management
Board and Henkel´s employees for their enormous commitment in the
past financial year, a period characterized by, in her words, an
extraordinarily difficult economic environment. "Thanks to our
motivated team, all our business sectors developed successfully,"
Bagel-Trah emphasized.

In view of the current economic climate, Kasper Rorsted, Chairman of
the Management Board, advised caution: "Although the world economy
has meanwhile stabilized, we are still far away from the normality
that we enjoyed prior to the crisis. Consequently, it is still too
early to return to `business as usual´. The global economic risks
have not gone away. And added to these, we are having to contend with
ever increasing economic pressures affecting every sector and
region." Therefore, Rorsted stressed, it was all the more important
to secure the company´s future competitiveness by taking the right
decisions and implementing the right measures.

Rorsted was nevertheless encouraged by the company´s performance at
the beginning of the current fiscal year. "Henkel has made a good
start to 2010 with all three of our business sectors reporting
initial successes." Further details would be available with
publication of the report for the first quarter on May 5. Looking at
2010 as a whole, Rorsted reaffirmed the targets for the year as
stated at the company´s recent annual press conference. "We intend to
gain market shares in all three of our business sectors, while also
increasing by more than ten percent both adjusted operating profit
and adjusted earnings per preferred share."

According to Rorsted, the points of focus for fiscal 2010 include
expanding Henkel´s business in the growth regions, strengthening its
top brands and deepening its customer relationships, as well as
developing its employees and strengthening the company´s global team.

You will find further information relating to the Annual General
Meeting at
http://www.henkel.com/press/20100419-annual-general-meeting.htm

- Live stream webcast of the AGM proceedings (from 10:00 am)
- Kasper Rorsted's complete statement (from 10.00 am)
- Press photos of the AGM proceedings (from 12:00 noon)

Henkel has been committed to making people's lives easier, better and
more beautiful for more than 130 years. A Fortune Global 500 company,
Henkel offers strong brands and technologies in three areas of
competence: Home Care, Personal Care and Adhesive Technologies. Each
day, about 50,000 employees around the world are dedicated to
fulfilling Henkel's claim "A Brand like a Friend". In fiscal 2009,
Henkel generated sales of 13,573 million euros and adjusted operating
profit of 1,364 million euros.

This information contains forward-looking statements which are based
on the current estimates and assumptions made by the corporate
management of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA. Forward-looking statements are
characterized by the use of words such as expect, intend, plan,
predict, assume, believe, estimate, anticipate, etc. Such statements
are not to be understood as in any way guaranteeing that those
expectations will turn out to be accurate. Future performance and the
results actually achieved by Henkel AG & Co. KGaA and its affiliated
companies depend on a number of risks and uncertainties and may
therefore differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Many
of these factors are outside Henkel's control and cannot be
accurately estimated in advance, such as the future economic
environment and the actions of competitors and others involved in the
marketplace. Henkel neither plans nor undertakes to update any
forward-looking statements.

Contact:
Lars Witteck Wulf Klüppelholz
Phone: +49-211-797-2606 Phone: +49-211-797-1875
Fax: +49-211-798-4040 Fax: +49-211-798-4040

press@henkel.com

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Further inquiry note:

Irene Honisch

Assistent Corporate Communications

Tel.: +49 (0)211 797-5668

E-Mail: irene.honisch@henkel.com

Branche: Consumer Goods
ISIN: DE0006048432
WKN: 604843
Index: DAX, CDAX, HDAX, Prime All Share
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