COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO — Director's Dealing 2012

Mar 1, 2012

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO (CL)
CIK: 0000021665
Period of Report: 2012-02-27

Reporting Person: Greene Thomas W Jr (Chief Information Officer)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2012-02-27	Common Stock	S	1458	$92.5531	Disposed	19746	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	1703	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Sale of shares (with proceeds delivered to the Company) for payment of tax liability incident to vesting of a restricted stock award under the issuer's Executive Incentive Compensation Plan. This sale was effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.