Henkel’s strong start into fiscal 2021

Henkel is expecting a positive start to the year despite the Covid-19 crisis.

Early figures show organic sales growth (excluding the impact of currency effects and acquisitions/divestments) stand at around 7%. This is significantly above current market expectations of around 3.5 percent.

Against the background of the recovery and preliminary figures, Adhesive Technologies expects to achieve an organic sales growth of around 12.5%.

CEO Carsten Knobel said: “Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic we expect that Henkel will report a very good performance in the first quarter. In particular, driven by the Adhesive Technologies business unit.”

Henkel will provide further details and in the quarterly statement on May 6, 2021.

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