euro adhoc: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA / Release of a voting rights announcement according to article 26, section 1.1 WpHG (Securities Trading Act) with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution

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Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is
responsible for the content of this announcement.
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Person/company obliged to make the notification:
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Name: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Place: 40191 Düsseldorf
State: Germany

Company data:
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Name: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Address: Henkelstr. 67, 40191 Düsseldorf
Place: 40191 Düsseldorf
State: Germany

19.12.2008

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Düsseldorf, has been notified that on December
19, 2008 the proportion of voting rights held by the members of the
share-pooling agreement of the Henkel Family represents in total a
rounded percentage of 52.18 percent of the voting rights (135,570,762
votes) in Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, held by

• 64 members of the families of the descendants of Fritz Henkel, the
company´s founder,
• four foundations set up by members of those families,
• one civil-law partnership set up by members of those families,
• eight private limited companies (GmbH) set up by members of those
families, seven limited partnerships with a limited company as general partner
(GmbH & Co. KG) and one limited partnership (KG),

under the terms of a share-pooling agreement as envisaged in §22 (2)
of the German Securities Trading Law (WpHG), whereby the shares held
by the eight private limited companies, by the seven limited
partnerships with a limited company as general partner and the one
limited partnership representing a rounded percentage of 14.02
percent (36,419,097 voting rights) are attributed (as envisaged in
§22 (1) No. 1 WpHG) to the family members who control those
companies.

Dr. Christoph Henkel exceeds the 5 percent threshold of voting rights
in Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, with voting rights attached to 15,132,417
ordinary shares in Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, representing a rounded
percentage of 5.825 percent. No other party to the share-pooling
agreement is obliged to notify that it has reached or exceeded 3
percent or more of the total voting rights in Henkel AG & Co. KGaA,
even after adding voting rights expressly granted under the terms of
usufruct agreements.

Mr. Albrecht Woeste, Düsseldorf, is the authorized representative of
the parties to the Henkel share-pooling agreement.

end of announcement euro adhoc
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Branche: Consumer Goods
ISIN: DE0006048432
WKN: 604843
Index: DAX, CDAX, HDAX, Prime All Share
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Börse Hamburg / free trade
Börse Stuttgart / free trade
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Börse München / free trade
Börse Berlin / regulated dealing