SEC Form 4 · accession 0001179110-15-013991

ECOLAB INC. · ECL

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

Reporting owner

Officer — Executive VP & CTO

Period of report

Oct 8, 2015

Accepted (ET)

Oct 13, 2015 · 4:04 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	Oct 8, 2015	M	11,800	$45.665	A	42,813	D
Common Stock	Oct 8, 2015	F	8,028	$119.225	D	34,785	D
Common Stock	Oct 8, 2015	M	6,200	$48.055	A	40,985	D
Common Stock	Oct 8, 2015	F	4,281	$119.225	D	36,704	D
Common Stock^F2	holding	—	—		—	68	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)^F3	$45.665	Oct 8, 2015	M	11,800	D	Dec 2, 2010	Dec 2, 2019	Common Stock	11,800	0	D
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)^F4	$48.055	Oct 8, 2015	M	6,200	D	Dec 1, 2011	Dec 1, 2020	Common Stock	6,200	13,100	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.
F2Number of UNITS in the Ecolab Stock Fund of the Ecolab Savings Plan (401(k) Plan) as of September 30, 2015. Includes 0.378 UNITS acquired since the reporting person's last report. (The 68.049 UNITS are the equivalent of approximately 126 SHARES of the issuer's Common Stock.)
F3Option granted under the Ecolab Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan on December 2, 2009. 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.
F4Option granted under the Ecolab Inc. 2010 Stock Incentive Plan on December 1, 2010. 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 shares on the third anniversary of the date of grant.