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Henkel: brands it owns and its ownership tree

Henkel (XETRA: HEN3) is a publicly listed company headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany that owns 13 consumer brands across 2 categories, and has 1 recorded transaction.[1]

Henkel was founded in Aachen in 1876 and is run as a partnership limited by shares with the Henkel family holding a controlling block of ordinary shares. It combines a consumer brands business in laundry, home care and hair with a larger industrial adhesives division.

Company facts

Legal name
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Type
publicly listed company · see all publicly listed company owners
Headquarters
🇩🇪 Düsseldorf, Germany
Founded
1876
Tickers
XETRA: HEN3
Wikidata
Q152051
Website
www.henkel.com
Last verified
· 4 sources

Henkel in numbers

Everything Henkel owns

2026

Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.

Everything Henkel owns Tree of 13 brands under Henkel. Henkel Dial got2b Loctite OLAPLEX Pattex Persil (Henkel) Pril Pritt and 5 more

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Brand portfolio by category

Home care (8)

Personal care & beauty (5)

Full portfolio, 13 brands, with sources → · Competitors by shared categories →

Acquisitions by Henkel

Acquisition closed

Henkel acquires OLAPLEX

Henkel bought all of OLAPLEX Holdings for $2.06 a share in cash, a total transaction value of $1.4 billion, and closed on 7 July 2026, when OLAPLEX shares stopped trading on Nasdaq. The brand had about €370 million of sales in 2025 and joined Henkel Consumer Brands, which Henkel says makes it the second-largest company in professional hair care globally.

Value
$1.4bn
Buyer
Henkel
Seller
public shareholders
Regulatory
None recorded

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Henkel in the global legal-entity registry

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) keeps an open register of legal entities. Each entity reports its own parents. We show it as a cross-check on the ownership recorded on this page, which is built from filings.

Legal entity identifier (LEI)
549300VZCL1HTH4O4Y49
Registered name
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (DE)
Registration status
Issued · record updated 1 June 2026
Parent
None named: it reports that no person or entity controls it.
Retrieved
· GLEIF record (JSON)

Frequently asked questions

What brands does Henkel own?

Henkel owns 13 consumer brands tracked here, including Persil (Henkel), OLAPLEX, Dial, Schwarzkopf, Purex and Snuggle.

Is Henkel a German company?

Yes. Henkel is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany and was founded in 1876.

Who owns Henkel?

Henkel is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as HEN3 on the XETRA.

What was Henkel's most recent acquisition?

The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is OLAPLEX on 7 July 2026.

Sources (4) & corrections

Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.

  1. [1] Henkel AG & Co. KGaA Annual Report 2025 — Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Annual report, published 5 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
  2. [2] Henkel successfully closes acquisition of premium hair care brand OLAPLEX — Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Official press release, published 7 July 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
  3. [3] Henkel to acquire premium hair care brand OLAPLEX — Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Official press release, published 26 March 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
  4. [4] Vestar Capital Partners completes $3.6 Billion Sale of Sun Products to Henkel — Vestar Capital Partners, Official press release, published 2 September 2016; retrieved 2 October 2026.

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