SEC Form 4 · accession 0001179110-15-009715

ECOLAB INC. · ECL

Statement of changes in beneficial ownership, as filed. Original on EDGAR ↗

Reporting owner

Officer — EVP & Regions President

Period of report

Jun 10, 2015

Accepted (ET)

Jun 12, 2015 · 4:21 pm EDT

Rule 10b5-1 plan

unknown — predates the checkbox

Issuer CIK

0000031462

Table I — non-derivative securities

Security	Date	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Owned after	D/I	Nature of ownership
Common Stock	Jun 10, 2015	M	12,500	$45.24	A	25,545	D
Common Stock^F2	Jun 10, 2015	F	8,210	$114.93	D	17,336	D
Common Stock^F3	holding	—	—		—	1,736	I	By Ecolab Savings Plan

Security	Conv. / exercise price	Date	Code	Shares	A/D	Exercisable	Expires	Underlying	Underlying shares	Owned after	D/I
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)^F4	$45.24	Jun 10, 2015	M	12,500	D	Dec 6, 2007	Dec 6, 2016	Common Stock	12,500	0	D

F1Reflects the reporting person's payment of the exercise price and withholding taxes for a stock option issued in accordance with Rule 16b-3 by delivering or withholding shares of Ecolab common stock.
F2Includes 1.535 shares acquired by the reporting person on April 16, 2015, by a dividend reinvestment feature under the Ecolab Stock Purchase Plan.
F3Number of UNITS in the Ecolab Stock Fund of the Ecolab Savings Plan (401(k) Plan) as of May 31, 2015. Includes 17.334 UNITS acquired since the reporting person's last report. (The 1,735.970 UNITS are the equivalent of approximately 3,203 SHARES of the issuer's Common Stock.)
F4Option granted under the Ecolab Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan on December 6, 2006. The option became exercisable, on a cumulative basis, as to one-third of the option shares (excluding any fractional portion less than one share), on each of the first and second anniversaries of the date of grant and as to the remaining option shares on the third anniversary of the date of grant.