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Management Changes/Henkel
Düsseldorf (euro adhoc) - December 13, 2011
Henkel names successor for CFO Lothar Steinebach
Carsten Knobel to become new Henkel CFO mid-2012
Düsseldorf/Germany - Effective July 1, 2012, Carsten Knobel (42), Corporate
Senior Vice President and Financial Director of Henkel´s Cosmetics/Toiletries
business and responsible for Corporate Controlling, will succeed Lothar
Steinebach (63) as Chief Financial Officer of Henkel. Steinebach will retire
end of June 2012 after more than 30 years with Henkel in a number leading
positions and serving since 2003 on the Management Board as Executive Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer.
"We are pleased to name Carsten as a highly-qualified and experienced successor
to our Chief Financial Officer. This decision is testament to our strong talent
pipeline and people development at Henkel. It is also in line with our
tradition to decide timely on upcoming changes at the Management Board," said
Kasper Rorsted, Chief Executive Officer of Henkel.
Carsten Knobel graduated from Technical University of Berlin with a degree in
Business Administration and Technical Chemistry and started his career with
Henkel in 1995 in R&D. From 1998 onwards, he held several management positions
in Finance/Controlling and International Marketing, including the post merger
integration in the US after the acquisition of Dial Corporation. In 2006 he
took over responsibility for Group Strategy and Corporate Controlling. Since
2009, he is Financial Director for the Cosmetics/Toiletries business of Henkel.
Lothar Steinebach joined Henkel in 1980 as legal counsel in the Legal
Department in which he held several leading positions. In 1995, he was
appointed to Corporate Senior Vice President Finance/Controlling. Since 2003,
he is a member of the Management Board as Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer, responsible for Finance/Controlling, IT, Legal and
Purchasing.
Henkel operates worldwide with leading brands and technologies in three
business areas: Laundry & Home Care, Cosmetics/Toiletries and Adhesive
Technologies. Founded in 1876, Henkel holds globally leading market positions
both in the consumer and industrial businesses with well-known brands such as
Persil, Schwarzkopf and Loctite. Henkel employs about 48,000 people and
reported sales of 15,092 million euros and adjusted operating profit of 1,862
million euros in fiscal 2010. Henkel´s preferred shares are listed in the
German stock index DAX and the company ranks among the Fortune Global 500.
This document contains forward-looking statements which are based on the
current estimates and assumptions made by the corporate management of Henkel AG
& Co. KGaA. Forward-looking statements are characterized by the use of words
such as expect, intend, plan, predict, assume, believe, estimate, anticipate,
forecast and similar formulations. Such statements are not to be understood as
in any way guaranteeing that those expectations will turn out to be accurate.
Future performance and the results actually achieved by Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
and its affiliated companies depend on a number of risks and uncertainties and
may therefore differ materially from the forward-looking statements. Many of
these factors are outside Henkel´s control and cannot be accurately estimated
in advance, such as the future economic environment and the actions of
competitors and others involved in the marketplace. Henkel neither plans nor
undertakes to update forward-looking statements.
Contact
Lars Witteck Wulf Klüppelholz
Tel. +49 211 797 - 2606 Tel. +49 211 797 - 1875
Fax +49 211 798 - 4040 Fax +49 211 798 - 4040
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
http://www.henkel.com{0>
press@henkel.com
Further inquiry note:
Irene Honisch
Corporate Communications
Tel.: +49 (0)211 797-5668
E-Mail: irene.honisch@henkel.com
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company: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Henkelstr. 67
D-40191 Düsseldorf
phone: +49 (0)211 797-0
FAX: +49 (0)211 798-4008
WWW: http://www.henkel.com
sector: Consumer Goods
ISIN: DE0006048432, DE0006048408
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Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Hannover, München, regulated dealing: Berlin
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