0001415889-24-028849.txt : 20241210 0001415889-24-028849.hdr.sgml : 20241210 20241210164116 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001415889-24-028849 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 4 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20241206 FILED AS OF DATE: 20241210 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20241210 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: Vautrinot Suzanne M CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001589791 ORGANIZATION NAME: FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 4 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-09328 FILM NUMBER: 241539078 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 350 ELLIS STREET CITY: MOUNTAIN VIEW STATE: CA ZIP: 94043 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: ECOLAB INC. CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000031462 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SOAP, DETERGENT, CLEANING PREPARATIONS, PERFUMES, COSMETICS [2840] ORGANIZATION NAME: 08 Industrial Applications and Services 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 4 1 form4-12102024_091207.xml X0508 4 2024-12-06 0000031462 ECOLAB INC. ECL 0001589791 Vautrinot Suzanne M C/O ECOLAB INC. 1 ECOLAB PLACE ST. PAUL MN 55102 true false false false 0 Common Stock 2024-12-06 4 M 0 2200 112.745 A 11722.63 D Common Stock 2024-12-06 4 F 0 989 250.602 D 10733.63 D Non-Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy) 112.745 2024-12-06 4 M 0 2200 0 D 2015-08-07 2025-05-07 Common Stock 2200 0 D Reflects the reporting person's payment of the exercise price for a stock option issued in accordance with Rule 16b-3 by delivering or withholding shares of Ecolab common stock. The option became exercisable, on a cumulative basis, as to 25% of the option shares (excluding any fractional portion less than one share), on the last day of each of the first, second and third three-month periods following its date of grant and as to the remaining shares on the last day of the fourth three-month period following its date of grant. The date listed in the Date Exercisable column represents the first vesting date. /s/ Youhao Dong, as Attorney-in-Fact for Suzanne M. Vautrinot 2024-12-10 EX-24 2 ex24-12102024_091217.htm ex24-12102024_091217.htm

POWER OF ATTORNEY


KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Jandeen M. Boone, Theresa E. Corona, David F. Duvick, Youhao Dong 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 December 5, 2024.



/s/ Suzanne M. Vautrinot

Suzanne M. Vautrinot