diff --git a/cmake/modules/DumuxMacros.cmake b/cmake/modules/DumuxMacros.cmake
index 9bead2adc02237f581456e3cdd919fab5784d371..00789290a28ed0163d05f8644e2c9ee17314be30 100644
--- a/cmake/modules/DumuxMacros.cmake
+++ b/cmake/modules/DumuxMacros.cmake
@@ -70,19 +70,14 @@ endif()
 if(NOT DUMUX_MULTITHREADING_BACKEND)
   if(TBB_FOUND)
     set(DUMUX_MULTITHREADING_BACKEND "TBB" CACHE STRING "The multithreading backend")
-    message(STATUS "Dumux multithreading backed: TBB")
   elseif(OpenMP_FOUND)
     set(DUMUX_MULTITHREADING_BACKEND "OpenMP" CACHE STRING "The multithreading backend")
-    message(STATUS "Dumux multithreading backed: OpenMP")
   elseif(Kokkos_FOUND)
     set(DUMUX_MULTITHREADING_BACKEND "Kokkos" CACHE STRING "The multithreading backend")
-    message(STATUS "Dumux multithreading backed: Kokkos")
   elseif(DUMUX_HAVE_CXX_EXECUTION_POLICY)
     set(DUMUX_MULTITHREADING_BACKEND "Cpp" CACHE STRING "The multithreading backend")
-    message(STATUS "Dumux multithreading backed: Cpp")
   else()
     set(DUMUX_MULTITHREADING_BACKEND "Serial" CACHE STRING "The multithreading backend")
-    message(STATUS "Dumux multithreading backed: Serial")
   endif()
 
 # abort if a multithreading backend has been manually selected
@@ -96,7 +91,7 @@ else()
     message(FATAL_ERROR "Selected Kokkos as Dumux multithreading backed but Kokkos has not been found")
   elseif(DUMUX_MULTITHREADING_BACKEND STREQUAL "Cpp" AND NOT DUMUX_HAVE_CXX_EXECUTION_POLICY)
     message(FATAL_ERROR "Selected Cpp as Dumux multithreading backed but your compiler does not implement parallel STL")
-  else()
-    message(STATUS "Dumux multithreading backed: ${DUMUX_MULTITHREADING_BACKEND}")
   endif()
 endif()
+
+message(STATUS "Dumux multithreading backend: ${DUMUX_MULTITHREADING_BACKEND}")