EANS-Voting Rights: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA / Release according to article 26, section 1 WpHG (Securities Trading Act) with the aim of 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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Announcement according to Artilce 26 Section 1, Sentence 1 WpHG

Person/company obliged to make the notification:
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Name: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Place: Düsseldorf
State: Germany

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Düsseldorf, has been notified that on October 21, 2010 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 53.21 percent
of the voting rights (138,240,804 votes) in Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, held by
•111 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. h.c. Christoph Henkel exceeds the 5 percent threshold of voting rights in
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, with voting rights attached to 14,172,457 ordinary shares
in Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, representing a rounded percentage of 5.46 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.

Dr. Simone Bagel-Trah, Düsseldorf, is the authorized representative of the
parties to the Henkel share-pooling agreement.

end of announcement euro adhoc
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ots Originaltext: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Im Internet recherchierbar: http://www.presseportal.de

Further inquiry note:

Heinz Nicolas

Tel.: +49 (0)211 797-4516

E-Mail: heinz.nicolas@henkel.com

Branche: Consumer Goods
ISIN: DE0006048432
WKN: 604843
Index: DAX, CDAX, HDAX, Prime All Share
Börsen: Frankfurt / regulated dealing/prime standard
Hamburg / free trade
Stuttgart / free trade
Düsseldorf / free trade
Hannover / free trade
München / free trade
Berlin / regulated dealing