ECOLAB INC. — Director's Dealing 2015

Dec 4, 2015

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: ECOLAB INC. (ECL)
CIK: 0000031462
Period of Report: 2015-12-02

Reporting Person: SCHMECHEL DANIEL J (Chief Financial Officer)

Derivative Transactions

Date	Security	Exercise Price	Code	Shares	A/D	Expiration	Underlying	Ownership
2015-12-02	Employee Stock Option (Right to Buy)	$119.12	A	32685	Acquired	2025-12-02	Common Stock (32685)	Direct

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	106969.395	Direct
Common Stock	2769.730	Indirect

Footnotes

F1: Number of UNITS in the Ecolab Stock Fund of the Ecolab Savings Plan (401(k) Plan) as of November 30, 2015. Includes 22.868 UNITS acquired since the reporting person's last report. (The 2,769.73 UNITS are the equivalent of approximately 5,110 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.