SEC Form 4 · accession 0001179110-18-004306

ECOLAB INC. · ECL

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

Reporting owner

Officer — EVP & CTO

Period of report

Mar 13, 2018

Accepted (ET)

Mar 14, 2018 · 5:03 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	Mar 13, 2018	M	10,000	$55.595	A	44,962	D
Common Stock	Mar 13, 2018	F	6,369	$136.755	D	38,593	D
Common Stock	Mar 13, 2018	M	7,000	$71.54	A	45,593	D
Common Stock	Mar 13, 2018	F	5,183	$136.755	D	40,410	D
Common Stock^F2	holding	—	—		—	70	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	$55.595	Mar 13, 2018	M	10,000	D	Dec 1, 2012	Dec 1, 2021	Common Stock	10,000	0	D
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)^F3	$71.54	Mar 13, 2018	M	7,000	D	Dec 5, 2013	Dec 5, 2022	Common Stock	7,000	12,600	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 February 28, 2018. (The 70.061 UNITS are the equivalent of approximately 129 SHARES of the issuer's Common Stock.)
F3The 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. The date listed in the "Date Exercisable" column represents the first anniversary date of the date of grant.