Henkel full year 2018 results hold steady

Published: 21-Feb-2019
Finance

Beauty business saw sales up 2.1% spearheaded by strong results in its professional hair care business

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Henkel has announced strong organic growth for fiscal 2018, with sales reaching €19.9bn.

The figure was impacted by currency developments which had an overall negative effect of around €1.1bn or -5.4% on sales.

Organic sales, which exclude the impact of foreign exchange effects and acquisitions and divestmentswas were 2.4%, while operating profit (EBIT) grew 1% to €3,496m.

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