In the first half of 2022, Henkel increased group sales to around €10.9 billion. This corresponds to significant organic sales growth of 8.9%. This positive development was driven by all business units and regions. As expected, the earnings in the first half of the year were impacted by the drastic rise in material and logistics prices. Strict cost management and further efficiency improvements contracted these significant price increases.
“In a very challenging environment, sales performance in the first six months exceeded the previous expectations for the full year, while earnings developed in line with our Group guidance for fiscal 2022. In view of this development, we have raised our full-year guidance for organic sales growth for the Group and confirmed our guidance for the EBIT margin and earnings per preferred share,” said Henkel CEO Carsten Knobel.