0001179110-16-020276.txt : 20160226 0001179110-16-020276.hdr.sgml : 20160226 20160226161725 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001179110-16-020276 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20160224 FILED AS OF DATE: 20160226 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20160226 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ECOLAB INC. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000031462 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SOAP, DETERGENT, CLEANING PREPARATIONS, PERFUMES, COSMETICS [2840] IRS NUMBER: 410231510 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: ECOLAB CORPORATE CENTER STREET 2: 370 WABASHA STREET NORTH CITY: SAINT PAUL STATE: MN ZIP: 55102 BUSINESS PHONE: 6512502587 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: ECOLAB CORPORATE CENTER STREET 2: 370 WABASHA STREET NORTH CITY: SAINT PAUL STATE: MN ZIP: 55102 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ECOLAB INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: ECONOMICS LABORATORY INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19861203 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Hughes Bryan L CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001608349 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-09328 FILM NUMBER: 161462064 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 370 WABASHA STREET NORTH CITY: SAINT PAUL STATE: MN ZIP: 55102 4 1 edgar.xml FORM 4 - X0306 4 2016-02-24 0 0000031462 ECOLAB INC. ECL 0001608349 Hughes Bryan L 370 WABASHA STREET NORTH SAINT PAUL MN 55102 0 1 0 0 Sr. VP & Corporate Controller Common Stock 2016-02-24 4 A 0 900 0 A 7311 D Common Stock 2016-02-24 4 F 0 338 100.465 D 6999.916 D Common Stock 529.611 I By Ecolab Savings Plan Reflects the reporting person's payment of minimum statutory tax obligations by withholding shares of Ecolab Common Stock incident to the vesting of performance-based restricted stock units in accordance with Rule 16b-3. The total includes 26.378 shares that were inadvertently omitted from the reporting person's Form 3 dated May 16, 2014 and subsequent reports. The total also includes 0.548 shares acquired at various times between the dates of July 18, 2014 and January 21, 2016 by dividend reinvestment under the Dividend Reinvestment Plan for shareholders of Ecolab sponsored by Computershare Trust Company, N.A. Number of UNITS in the Ecolab Stock Fund of the Ecolab Savings Plan (401(k) Plan) as of January 31, 2016. Includes 1.803 UNITS acquired since the reporting person's last report. (The 529.611 UNITS are the equivalent of approximately 978 SHARES of the issuer's Common Stock.) /s/ David F. Duvick, as Attorney-in-Fact for Bryan L. Hughes 2016-02-26