Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

Shareholders of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA has two classes of share capital: ordinary shares, which carry voting rights, and preferred shares, which carry no voting rights but receive a preferential dividend. As of 30 June 2026, Henkel had 259,795,875 ordinary shares issued (253,409,961 in circulation after treasury holdings) and 178,162,875 preferred shares issued (151,440,961 in circulation). Henkel’s own investor relations disclosures state that, as of 19 March 2026, a shareholders’ pool comprising more than 160 members of the Henkel family held 61.85% of the ordinary (voting) shares. Because this percentage applies only to the voting share class, and preferred shares (roughly 41% of total issued share capital) are excluded from it, the pool’s share of total issued capital is lower: based on the issued-share counts above, the holding is equivalent to approximately 36.7% of Henkel’s combined ordinary-plus-preferred share capital — a figure calculated here from public share-count data rather than a percentage separately disclosed by Henkel.

Henkel’s preferred shares are described by the company as entirely in free float (aside from treasury holdings) and largely held by institutional investors; no single preferred shareholder is disclosed as holding a reportable stake, since preferred shares carry no vote and generally fall outside WpHG voting-rights notification thresholds. Among ordinary/voting shareholders, WpHG major-shareholding notifications disclose two institutional holders below the family pool: BlackRock, Inc. reported 3.03% of voting rights as of 12 September 2025, and Silchester International Investors LLP reported 3.01% of voting rights as of 18 November 2025. These are the only other disclosed holdings above typical notification thresholds identified from Henkel’s published voting-rights announcements as of the information dates above.

Zavia’s underlying shareholder dataset for this company reports a total of 17 shareholder records but stores only 5, and those 5 records show USD-denominated holdings (for example “BlackRock Equity Dividend Fund” and “iShares Trust – iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF”) at share prices that do not correspond to Henkel’s actual EUR-denominated ordinary or preferred shares. This underlying dataset therefore appears truncated and non-authoritative for this entity and has not been used as a source for this overview; the percentages and holders described above are drawn directly from Henkel’s own investor relations and voting-rights disclosures.

Ultimate beneficial ownership

Henkel is controlled, in aggregate, by a family shareholders’ pool of more than 160 individual descendants of the company’s founding Henkel family, bound by a pooling agreement (Poolvertrag) that was extended in February 2014 to run for an indefinite term (first terminable 31 December 2033). No single family member is disclosed as individually holding a reportable stake at or above typical ultimate-beneficial-owner thresholds (for example 25%); control is instead exercised collectively through the pool and, at the corporate-governance level, through the family-linked Shareholders’ Committee, which appoints and oversees Henkel Management AG as general partner. Based on the information available, this profile records the ultimate beneficial ownership of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA as institutional/family-pooled control rather than a single identified natural-person UBO.

Data availability

Shareholder disclosure for Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, as a DAX-listed company, is major shareholders only: German and EU transparency rules (WpHG) require disclosure only when voting-rights thresholds are crossed, so the complete shareholder register — particularly for the free-floating preferred shares — is not public. The figures above are current as of the dates stated for each holding.

Sources

• Henkel Investor Relations — Shares: https://www.henkel.com/investors-and-analysts/shares (retrieved 2026-09-25)
• Henkel Investor Relations — Voting Rights Announcements: https://www.henkel.com/investors-and-analysts/investor-relations-news/voting-rights-announcements (notification dated 2026-03-20, retrieved 2026-09-25)
• RTTNews, “Henkel Family Extends Share-pooling Deal”, 24 February 2014: https://www.rttnews.com/2274598/henkel-family-extends-share-pooling-deal.aspx (retrieved 2026-09-25)

Directors and officers of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

The underlying registry-derived officer dataset for Henkel AG & Co. KGaA lists 117 individual records, of which 85 are marked as resigned and 32 as active. Nearly all records carry the generic role label “Officer” without distinguishing board members from holders of commercial power of attorney (Prokura), so this dataset is best read as a historical log of registered signatories rather than a current management roster. Cross-checked against Henkel’s own governance disclosures, the company’s current Management Board — the executive body of Henkel Management AG, the KGaA’s sole general partner — has five members, several of whose appointment dates in the underlying data are consistent with their publicly announced Management Board appointments.

• Carsten Knobel — Chief Executive Officer (appointed 1 January 2020)
• Marco Swoboda — Chief Financial Officer; Executive Vice President, Finance, Purchasing, Global Business Solutions and Digital/IT (appointed 1 January 2020)
• Sylvie Nicol — Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Infrastructure and Sustainability (appointed 1 April 2019)
• Wolfgang König — Executive Vice President, Consumer Brands (appointed 28 June 2021)
• Mark Dorn — Executive Vice President, Adhesive Technologies (appointed 28 February 2023)

Nationality is not disclosed in either the underlying registry data or Henkel’s public governance pages for these individuals and is reported here as “Not disclosed,” consistent with a policy of never inferring nationality from a name or correspondence address. Registered correspondence addresses in the underlying data are in Germany; this reflects a service/registration address only and is not used to infer nationality or residence.

Separately from the Management Board, Henkel’s Shareholders’ Committee — a ten-member body that, on behalf of the general meeting, appoints and oversees the general partner Henkel Management AG — is chaired by Dr. Simone Bagel-Trah, with Konstantin von Unger as Vice Chair. Other current members include Dr. Paul Achleitner, Alexander Birken, Dr. Kaspar von Braun, Dr.-Ing. Stefan Hartung, Dr. Christoph Kneip, Dr. h.c. Thomas Manchot, Sabrina Soussan and Poul Weihrauch. Several committee members carry Henkel family surnames (Bagel-Trah, von Unger, von Braun, Manchot), consistent with the committee’s role in representing the family shareholders’ pool, though committee membership is a governance role and is not, on its own, evidence of an individual ownership stake.

Recent officer changes

Mark Dorn’s appointment to the Management Board, effective 28 February 2023, is the most recent Management Board change identified from the sources reviewed. No further verified 2025–2026 Management Board changes were identified in the sources consulted for this profile.

Data availability

Officer information for German KGaA companies is publicly available through the Handelsregister, but the underlying dataset for this company does not distinguish Management Board members from Prokura holders and does not report nationality. The Management Board list and appointment dates above were cross-checked against Henkel’s own governance pages as of the retrieval date below.

Sources

• Henkel — Management Board: https://www.henkel.com/company/management-corporate-boards/management-board (retrieved 2026-09-25)
• Henkel — Shareholders’ Committee: https://www.henkel.com/company/management-corporate-boards/shareholders-committee (retrieved 2026-09-25)
• Henkel Investor Relations News, “Carsten Knobel new CEO and Marco Swoboda new CFO of Henkel”, 30 December 2019: https://www.henkel.com/investors-and-analysts/investor-relations-news/2019-12-30-carsten-knobel-new-ceo-and-marco-swoboda-new-cfo-of-henkel-1013906 (retrieved 2026-09-25)

Group structure of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA is the top-level, DAX-listed parent entity of the Henkel group and is not itself disclosed as a subsidiary of another corporate parent. The underlying corporate-linkage dataset lists 133 subsidiary entities beneath Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, spanning roughly 50 countries; ownership percentages for individual subsidiaries are not disclosed in this dataset, so relationships are described structurally below rather than by shareholding percentage. Germany (28 entities) and the United States (22 entities) account for the largest concentrations, reflecting Henkel’s principal operating and holding-company footprint, followed by smaller clusters across Canada, Italy, the United Kingdom, Mexico, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia and other markets in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.

The dataset includes both operating subsidiaries trading under the Henkel, Loctite, Persil and Schwarzkopf brand families (for example Henkel Corporation in the United States and Henkel Consumer Brands GmbH in Germany) and a number of German-registered holding and investment entities (for example Henkel Erste/Zweite Holding GmbH, Henkel Innovation Investments GmbH and Leo Erste/Zweite Investment GmbH) used to structure the group’s shareholdings. It also separately lists Henkel Management AG (HRB 58139, Düsseldorf), the entity that acts as Henkel AG & Co. KGaA’s personally liable general partner rather than as an ordinary subsidiary.

Verified corporate relationships

Recent structural changes

In 2023, Henkel combined its former Laundry & Home Care and Beauty Care business units into a single Consumer Brands unit, alongside the existing Adhesive Technologies unit. This was a business-segment reorganisation rather than a change in the legal group structure and is not reflected as a separate legal-entity transaction in the sources reviewed.

Data availability

The underlying corporate-linkage dataset provides a partial view of the group: it lists subsidiary names, countries and registration numbers but not ownership percentages, acquisition dates, or voting/control percentages, and it has not been independently verified entity-by-entity against each local registry for this profile. It should be treated as indicative of group scope and geographic footprint rather than as a fully verified ownership chart.

Sources

• Zavia corporate-linkage dataset for Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (last synced 2026-09-08)
• Handelsregister (Commercial Register): https://www.handelsregister.de (retrieved 2026-09-25)