U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 4
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section
17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the
Investment Company Act of 1940
|_| Check box if no longer subject of Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations
may continue. See Instruction 1(b).
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
Henkel KGaA
67 Henkelstra(beta)e
40191 Dusseldorf
Germany
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Ecolab Inc. (ECL)
3. IRS Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary)
4. Statement for Month/Year
October/1999
5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year)
6. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
|_| Director |X| 10% Owner (see attached statement)
|_| Officer (give title below) |_| Other (specify below)
7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line)
|X| Form filed by One Reporting Person
|_| Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
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*If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction
4(b)(v). Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities
beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
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Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of,
or Beneficially Owned
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6.
4. 5. Owner-
Securities Acquired (A) or Amount of ship
3. Disposed of (D) Securities Form 7.
Transaction (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Beneficially Direct Nature of
2. Code ------------------------------- Owned at End (D) or Indirect
1. Transaction (Instr. 8) (A) of Month Indirect Beneficial
Title of Security Date ------------ Amount or Price (Instr. 3 (I) Ownership
(Instr. 3) (mm/dd/yy) Code V (D) and 4) (Instr.4) (Instr. 4)
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<S> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C> <C>
Common Stock, par value $.01
per share 10/29/99 P 102,000 A $33.75 16,677,512 D(1)
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Common Stock, par value $.01 Held by
per share 14,666,664 I(1) Subsidiary
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Explanation of responses: (1) Since the Reporting Person's last filing on Form
4, the common stock of the Issuer was split 2-for-1, resulting in the Reporting
Person's increased ownership of shares of common stock.
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Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
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10.
9. Owner-
Number ship
of Form
2. Deriv- of
Conver- 5. 7. ative Deriv- 11.
sion Number of Title and Amount Secur- ative Nature
or Derivative 6. of Underlying 8. ities Secur- of
Exer- 4. Securities Date Securities Price Bene- ity: In-
cise 3. Trans- Acquired (A) Exercisable and (Instr. 3 and 4) of ficially Direct direct
Price Trans- action or Disposed Expiration Date ---------------- Deriv- Owned (D) or Bene-
1. of action Code of(D) (Month/Day/Year) Amount ative at end In- ficial
Title of Deriv- Date (Instr. (Instr. 3, ---------------- or Secur- of direct Owner-
Derivative ative (Month/ 8) 4 and 5) Date Expira- Number ity Month (I) ship
Security Secur- Day/ ------ ------------ Exer- tion of (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr.
(Instr. 3) ity Year) Code V (A) (D) cisable Date Title Shares 5) 4) 4) 4)
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Explanation of responses:
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of fact constitute Federal Criminal
Violations.
See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Signature of Reporting Person
Henkel KGaA
By: /s/ A. Barthling By: /s/ T.G. Kuhn
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Name: A. Barthling Name: T.G. Kuhn
Title: Corporate Financial Controller Title: Senior Counsel
Date: November 9, 1999 Date: November 9, 1999
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STATEMENT ATTACHED TO FORM 4
FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
BY HENKEL KGAA
67 HENKELSTRA(beta)E
40191 DUSSELDORF
GERMANY
November 9, 1999
ITEM 6. Relationships of Reporting Person to Company
Henkel KGaA ("Henkel") is the beneficial owner of more than 10 percent of
the outstanding common stock of Ecolab Inc. ("Ecolab"). Under an agreement dated
as of June 26, 1991, between Ecolab and Henkel, Ecolab agreed to take all
necessary actions to have such number of designees of Henkel nominated to
Ecolab's Board of Directors so that Henkel has representation on the Board of
Directors proportionate with its stock ownership. Pursuant to this agreement,
Albrecht Woeste, Dr. Roland Schulz and Hugo Uyterhoeven currently serve on the
Board of Directors of Ecolab.
