EANS-Voting Rights: 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: Düsseldorf
State: Germany

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

30.06.2009

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Düsseldorf, has been notified that on June 30, 2009 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 52.57 percent
of the voting rights (136,570,802 votes) in Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, held by
• 105 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 14,372,457 ordinary shares in
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, representing a rounded percentage of 5.53 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.

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

end of announcement euro adhoc
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emitter: 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
indexes: DAX, CDAX, HDAX, Prime All Share
stockmarkets: regulated dealing/prime standard: Frankfurt, free trade: Hamburg,
Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Hannover, München, regulated dealing:
Berlin
language: English

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