“For Henkel—and the world economy as a whole—2009 will go down as a challenging year. Nevertheless, we have made good progress towards achieving our 2012 financial targets as proven by our outstanding results in the fourth quarter of 2009,” said Kasper Rorsted, chairman of the Henkel management board, upon release of the company full year results. All told, Henkel’s group sales fell 3.9% compared to the prior year, however Rorsted noted that laundry and home care and cosmetics/to...