Leading adhesives, sealings, and coatings producer Henkel has published its financial results for Q3, in which it recorded organic sales growth and positive volume development in both of its business units.
Group sales in the third quarter of 2025 decreased nominally by -6.3 per cent to 5,147 million euros. Effects from acquisitions/divestments had a negative impact of -2.9 percent on sales development. Foreign exchange effects reduced sales by -4.8 per cent. Organically (i.e. adjusted for foreign exchange and acquisitions/divestments), sales increased by 1.4 per cent. At Group level, this growth was driven by both a stable price development and overall good volume development.
In the first nine months of 2025, sales totalled 15,549 million euros. This is equivalent to a nominal decrease of -4.6 percent. Organically, Henkel achieved positive sales growth of 0.4 percent, driven by a positive price development. By contrast, volume development at Group level declined slightly.
Henkel CEO, Carsten Knobel, said: “As expected, sales momentum continued to accelerate in the third quarter. While the main driver for this was the adhesive technologies business unit, the consumer brands business unit also recorded positive organic sales growth. From a regional perspective, the good sales development in North America – to which both business units contributed with positive sales growth – is of particular note. This demonstrates the effectiveness of our measures.
“In addition, the good earnings development continued in the third quarter, while we consistently pursued investments in our businesses and brands. At the same time, we are continuing to make very good progress in integrating our consumer brands businesses and, as announced, will successfully complete the process by year-end. We expect to realize the full cost savings of at least 525 million euros by the end of the current fiscal year.
“The full-year outlook for 2025 remains unchanged, albeit with the uncertainty and challenges in the global markets persisting. We continue to expect that both the adjusted EBIT margin and the adjusted EPS growth at constant currency exchange rates will be well within our current outlook ranges. However, in case the overall economic environment does not improve noticeably by year-end, organic sales growth for the Group is expected to come in at the lower end of our current guidance range of 1 to 2 per cent.”
See the report in full on the Henkel website.
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