dusseldorf germany india is an important market for henkel and it would continue to make investments in laboratory infrastructure and additional capacities in the country company chief executive officer carsten knobel has saidfurther henkel is looking for inorganic growth opportunities through mergers and acquisitions ma knobel addedindia is an important market for b2b we continue to invest in laboratory infrastructure and additional capacities in electronics knobel told visiting foreign journalists at the henkel headquarters herewe are quite solid in financial and see opportunities in inorganic growth along with organic expansion plans he addedwhile the company continues to focus on its both business segments of adhesive technologies and consumer brands henkel sees ma opportunity in the former while the latter is in the process of consolidation the ceo saidknobel inaugurated an inspiration centre dusseldorf icd set up with an investment of euro 130 million recentlyit would drive innovation and the best solutions to the customerscustomer labs in icd get us proximate to customers we are opening a similar centre in shanghai soon knobel addedabout plans for india knobel said the company would continue to invest in indian operations it currently operates a customer experience centre in mumbai and two innovation centres in mumbai and pune respectivelyit also opened a global technology centre in bengaluru last year henkel has about 1000 employees in india out of 52000 globallyindia is an important market for usabout 80 per cent of our growth will come from india and china going forward knobel saidhe further said henkel lined up a strategic agenda for purposeful growth globally based on four pillars of winning portfolio competitive edge future ready operating models and collaborative culturesour positive growth agenda is paying off as we are already focusing on our two global categories of business for the last 15 months postcovid we started this year well with a 7 per cent growth in both segments he addedin 2022 henkel earned euro 22 billion in revenue with equal contributions from adhesive technologies and consumer brands categorieswithin the adhesive technologies segment the focus is being stepped up on automotive emobility electrification connectivity and defossilisation of industry among others