- Strong business performance in fiscal 2024
- Sales: 21.6 billion euros, good organic growth of 2.6 percent
- Operating profit (EBIT)*: 3.1 billion euros, very significant increase of 20.9 percent
- EBIT margin*: 14.3 percent, outstanding improvement by 240 basis points
- Earnings per preferred share (EPS)* significantly higher: 5.36 euros, +25.1 percent at constant exchange rates
- Strong free cash flow of 2.4 billion euros
- Dividend increase in the double-digit percentage range proposed: 2.04 euros per preferred share (+10.3 percent)
- New share buyback of up to 1 billion euros decided
- Implementation of Purposeful Growth Agenda further progressed
- Consumer Brands: Integration faster than planned, portfolio measures finalized, full savings to be realized already by end of 2025
- Adhesive Technologies: New set-up implemented in 2023 is paying off
- Ambitious climate protection targets: net-zero roadmap defined
- Outlook for fiscal 2025: Poised for further top- and bottom line growth – with slow start into the year and acceleration in the course of the year
- Organic sales growth: 1.5 to 3.5 percent
- EBIT margin*: 14.0 to 15.5 percent
- Earnings per preferred share (EPS)*: Increase in the low to high single-digit percentage range (at constant exchange rates)
