SEC Form 4 · accession 0001179110-15-015007

ECOLAB INC. · ECL

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

Reporting owner

Officer — EVP & Pres-Global Water

Period of report

Nov 13, 2015

Accepted (ET)

Nov 17, 2015 · 4:21 pm EST

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	Nov 13, 2015	M	21,250	$49.42	A	34,127	D
Common Stock	Nov 13, 2015	F	14,950	$115.54	D	19,177	D
Common Stock	Nov 13, 2015	M	20,000	$35.63	A	39,177	D
Common Stock	Nov 13, 2015	F	12,834	$115.54	D	26,343	D
Common Stock	Nov 13, 2015	S	13,430	$114.83	D	12,913	D
Common Stock^F2	holding	—	—		—	1,086	I	By Ecolab Savings Plan

Security	Conv. / exercise price	Date	Code	Shares	A/D	Exercisable	Expires	Underlying	Underlying shares	Owned after	D/I
Common Stock^F3	$49.42	Nov 13, 2015	M	21,250	D	Dec 5, 2008	Dec 5, 2017	Common Stock	21,250	0	D
Common Stock^F4	$35.63	Nov 13, 2015	M	20,000	D	Dec 3, 2009	Dec 3, 2018	Common Stock	20,000	14,800	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 October 31, 2015. Includes 2.885 UNITS acquired since the reporting person's last report. (The 1,085.513 UNITS are the equivalent of approximately 2,003 SHARES of the issuer's Common Stock.)
F3Option granted under the Ecolab Inc. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan on December 5, 2007. 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. 2005 Stock Incentive Plan on December 3, 2008. 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.