COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO — Director's Dealing 2008

Sep 10, 2008

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO (CL)
CIK: 0000021665
Period of Report: 2008-09-08

Reporting Person: MOISON FRANCK J (Pres., Glob. Bus. Dev. & Tech.)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2008-09-08	Common Stock	F	1260	$79.25	Disposed	57990	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	1189	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Payment of tax liability by withholding shares of stock from award of restricted shares vesting under the issuer's stockholder-approved Executive Incentive Compensation Plan. The overall net effect of the vesting of restricted shares, after the withholding of shares to pay income taxes associated with such vesting reported on this Form, was to increase Mr. Moison's non-restricted holdings (i.e., common shares held outright) of Colgate stock.