ECOLAB INC. — Director's Dealing 2013

Dec 7, 2013

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: ECOLAB INC (ECL)
CIK: 0000031462
Period of Report: 2013-12-04

Reporting Person: SCHMECHEL DANIEL J (Chief Financial Officer)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2013-08-19	Common Stock	G	164	$0.00	Disposed	77693.214	Direct

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2013-12-04	Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$103.265	A	27980	Acquired	2023-12-04	Common Stock (27980)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	2709.740	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Includes 1.125 shares acquired on April 18, 2013, 1.010 shares acquired on July 18, 2013 and 0.916 shares acquired on October 18, 2013 by dividend reinvestment under the Dividend Reinvestment Plan for shareholders of Ecolab sponsored by Computershare Trust Company, N.A.

F2: Number of UNITS in the Ecolab Stock Fund of the Ecolab Savings Plan (401(k) Plan) as of October 31, 2013. Includes 20.425 UNITS acquired since the reporting person's last report. (The 2,709.740 UNITS are the equivalent of approximately 5,003 shares of the issuer's Common Stock.)

F3: The option will be exercisable, on a cumulative basis, as to one-third of the option shares (excluding any fractional portion less than one share), on each of the first and second anniversaries of the date of grant and as to the remaining shares on the third anniversary of the date of grant.