0001415889-21-000269.txt : 20210108 0001415889-21-000269.hdr.sgml : 20210108 20210108203927 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001415889-21-000269 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20210101 FILED AS OF DATE: 20210108 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20210108 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Peterson Gail CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001837080 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-09328 FILM NUMBER: 21518880 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1 ECOLAB PLACE CITY: SAINT 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 3 1 form3-01082021_050116.xml X0206 3 2021-01-01 0 0000031462 ECOLAB INC. ECL 0001837080 Peterson Gail 1 ECOLAB PLACE ST. PAUL MN 55102 false true false false SVP - Global Mktg & Comms Common Stock 1529 D Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy) 137.087 2018-12-06 2027-12-06 Common Stock 1785 D Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy) 158.515 2019-12-04 2028-12-04 Common Stock 2104 D Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy) 184.390 2020-12-03 2029-12-03 Common Stock 1688 D Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy) 221.410 2021-12-03 2030-12-03 Common Stock 6486 D Option granted under the Ecolab Inc. 2010 Stock Incentive Plan. The option became or becomes 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 is the first anniversary of the date of grant. /s/ David F. Duvick, as Attorney-in-Fact for Gail Peterson 2021-01-08 EX-24 2 ex24-01082021_050117.htm ex24-01082021_050117.htm

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 attorneyinfact 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 attorneyinfact, 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 attorneyinfact 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 attorneyinfact may approve in such attorneyinfact's discretion.


The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorneyinfact 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 attorneyinfact, or such attorneyinfact'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 attorneysinfact, 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 attorneysinfact.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of December 11, 2020.




/s/ Gail Peterson               

Gail Peterson