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Henkel
Henkel AG & Company, KGaA, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, 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 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.
Henkel (surname)
Henkel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andrea Henkel (born 1977), German biathlete
- Caesar Carl Hans Henkel (1837-1913), German-born South African forester, cartographer, painter, soldier and botanist
- Heike Henkel (born 1964), German former athlete
- Henner Henkel (1915–1942), German tennis player
- Herbert L. Henkel, CEO of Ingersoll Rand
- John Spurgeon Henkel (1871-1962), South African botanist and forester
- Kim Henkel, American screenwriter, film director and producer
- Kim Henkel, creator of ZTreeWin
- Manuela Henkel (born 1974), German cross-country skier
- Rainer Henkel (born 1964), former freestyle swimmer