COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO — Director's Dealing 2015

Aug 17, 2015

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO (CL)
CIK: 0000021665
Period of Report: 2015-08-13

Reporting Person: COOK IAN M (Director, Chairman, President & CEO)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2015-08-05	Common Stock	G	5008	—	Disposed	1180879	Direct
2015-08-05	Common Stock	G	5008	—	Disposed	1175871	Direct
2015-08-13	Common Stock	M	710000	$36.61	Acquired	1885871	Direct
2015-08-13	Common Stock	F	552203	$67.66	Disposed	1333668	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2015-08-13	Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$36.61	M	710000	Disposed	2015-09-10	Common Stock (710000)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	73476	Indirect
Common Stock	106527	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Bona fide gift.

F2: This amount includes a payment of 66,726 shares upon maturation of the reporting person's 2013 GRAT on August 5, 2015. These shares were previously reported as indirectly beneficially owned.

F3: Exercise of stock options awarded under the issuer's employee stock option plan.

F4: The exercise price of the options and related tax withholding requirement were satisfied by the Company's withholding shares otherwise deliverable upon exercise of the options.

F5: Option became exercisable in one-third increments beginning on the first anniversary of the September 10, 2009 grant date.