0001179110-18-011600.txt : 20180920
0001179110-18-011600.hdr.sgml : 20180920
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ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001179110-18-011600
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20180918
FILED AS OF DATE: 20180920
DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20180920
REPORTING-OWNER:
OWNER DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SCHMECHEL DANIEL J
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001198768
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: 4
SEC ACT: 1934 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-09328
FILM NUMBER: 181079988
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 370 WBASHA ST NORTH
CITY: ST PAUL
STATE: MN
ZIP: 55102
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: 1 ECOLAB PLACE
CITY: SAINT PAUL
STATE: MN
ZIP: 55102
BUSINESS PHONE: 18002326522
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: 1 ECOLAB PLACE
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
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edgar.xml
FORM 4 -
X0306
4
2018-09-18
0
0000031462
ECOLAB INC.
ECL
0001198768
SCHMECHEL DANIEL J
1 ECOLAB PLACE
SAINT PAUL
MN
55102
0
1
0
0
CFO and Treasurer
Common Stock
2018-09-18
4
M
0
14500
48.055
A
157481.806
D
Common Stock
2018-09-18
4
F
0
9038
156.220
D
148446.219
D
Common Stock
2860.772
I
By Ecolab Savings Plan
Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)
48.055
2018-09-18
4
M
0
14500
0
D
2011-12-01
2020-12-01
Common Stock
14500
0
D
Reflects the reporting person's payment of the exercise price and witholding taxes for a stock option issued in accordance with Rule 16b-3 by delivering or withholding shares of Ecolab common stock.
The total includes 1.194 shares acquired on April 18, 2018 and 1.219 shares acquired on July 18, 2018 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 August 31, 2018. Includes 15.966 UNITS acquired since the reporting person's last report. (The 2,860.772 UNITS are the equivalent of approximately 5,255 SHARES of the issuer's common stock.)
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. The date listed in the "Date Exercisable" column represents the first anniversary date of the date of grant.
/s/ David F. Duvick, Attorney-in-Fact for Daniel J. Schmechel
2018-09-20
EX-24
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schmechel_poa.txt
SCHMECHEL - POWER OF ATTORNEY
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Michael C. McCormick, Timothy Beastrom, David F. Duvick and
Corinne Lawson, signing singly, as the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to:
(1) prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's
behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "SEC") a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other
documents necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords
enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of
reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC;
(2) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's
capacity as an officer and/or director of Ecolab Inc. (the
"Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder and
Form 144 in accordance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act of
1933, and any other forms or reports the undersigned may be required
to file in connection with the undersigned's ownership, acquisition,
or disposition of securities of the Company;
(3) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned
which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such
Form 3, 4, 5 or 144, or other form or report; complete and execute
any amendment or amendments thereto; and timely file such form with
the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
(4) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of
benefit to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the
undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such
attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power
of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and
conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.
The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to
be executed as of August 28, 2018.
/s/ Daniel J. Schmechel
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Daniel J. Schmechel