COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO — Director's Dealing 2015

Feb 12, 2015

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO (CL)
CIK: 0000021665
Period of Report: 2015-02-10

Reporting Person: HUSTON JOHN J (Sr. VP Office of the Chairman)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2014-05-05	Common Stock	G	16	—	Disposed	86998	Direct
2014-12-02	Common Stock	G	229	—	Disposed	86769	Direct
2014-12-09	Common Stock	G	75	—	Disposed	86694	Direct
2015-02-10	Common Stock	M	14000	$36.61	Acquired	100694	Direct
2015-02-10	Common Stock	S	14000	$69.1905	Disposed	86694	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2015-02-10	Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$36.61	M	14000	Disposed	2015-09-10	Common Stock (14000)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	32822	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Represents a bona fide gift.

F2: Exercise of stock options awarded under the issuer's 2005 Employee Stock Option Plan.

F3: Sale of shares with a portion of the proceeds delivered to the issuer for payment of the exercise price of options under the issuer's 2005 Employee Stock Option Plan.

F4: Weighted average price, as these shares were sold in multiple transactions at prices ranging from $68.91 to $69.45, inclusive. The reporting person undertakes to provide to the issuer, any security holder of the issuer, or the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon request, additional information regarding the number of shares sold at each separate price within the range set forth in this footnote.

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