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: Corkrean John J (Sr.VP and Corporate Controller)

Non-Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Code	Shares	Price	A/D	Holdings After	Ownership
2013-11-14	Common Stock	G	50	$0.00	Disposed	13163	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	6990	Acquired	2023-12-04	Common Stock (6990)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	1634.916	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Number of UNITS in the Ecolab Stock Fund of the Ecolab Savings Plan (401(k) Plan) as of October 31, 2013. Includes 30.208 UNITS acquired since the reporting person's last report. (The 1,634.916 UNITS are the equivalent of approximtely 3,019 shares of the issuer's Common Stock.)

F2: 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.