78/100BEcolab company profile
- CEO
- Christophe Beck
- Employees
- 48,000
- Headquarters
- 1 Ecolab Place, Saint Paul, MN 55102-2233, US
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Chemicals - Specialty
- IPO date
- 21 Feb 1973
- Stock exchange
- NYSE
- ISIN
- US2788651006
Website:ecolab.com
About the company
Ecolab Inc. provides water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions and services in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Global Water, Global Institutional & Specialty, Global Pest Elimination, and Global Life Sciences. The Global Water segment offers water treatment and process applications, and cleaning and sanitizing solutions to manufacturing, food and beverage processing, transportation, chemical, primary metals and mining, power generation, global refining, petrochemical, pulp and paper industries. The Global Institutional & Specialty segment provides cleaning and sanitizing products to the foodservice, healthcare, hospitality, lodging, government, education and retail industries. The Global Pest Elimination segment provides pest elimination services to detect, prevent, and eliminate pests comprising rodents and insects in full-service and quick-service restaurants, food and beverage processors, hotels, grocery operations, and other commercial segments, including education, life sciences, and healthcare. The Global Life Sciences segment provides cleaning and contamination control solutions to pharmaceutical and personal care manufacturers. It offers its products under the Ecolab, Kay, Purolite, and Bioquell brand names. The company sells its products through field sales and corporate account personnel, distributors, and dealers. Ecolab Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Employees
Ecolab had about 48,000 employees at the end of fiscal year 2025 (31 December 2025), by its annual report. That is 0.0% more than a year before.
Employees at each fiscal year end, as the company reports them in its annual report (10-K); revenue and net income per employee are the fiscal year's over that count.
Who owns Ecolab
Institutions such as funds, banks and insurers held 80.8% of Ecolab's shares on 30 June 2026, 1,756 of them reporting holdings to the SEC; the rest is held by individual investors and other shareholders.
Shares free to trade
Closely held shares belong to insiders, founders and owners of more than 5%, and seldom change hands. The free float is the rest: the shares anyone can buy and sell.
How Ecolab pays its executives
The chief executive was paid 17.40M USD for fiscal 2025, 68% of it in shares and options.
| Name and position | Salary | Bonus | Stock awards | Option awards | Cash incentive | Other pay | Total pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christophe Beck Chairman and Chief Executive Officer | 1.39M USD | — | 7.23M USD | 4.57M USD | 3.38M USD | 836.65K USD | 17.40M USD |
| Darrell R. Brown President and Chief Operating Officer | 856.73K USD | — | 1.87M USD | 1.18M USD | 1.26M USD | 486.23K USD | 5.65M USD |
| Scott D. Kirkland Chief Financial Officer | 856.73K USD | — | 1.75M USD | 1.10M USD | 1.26M USD | 228.42K USD | 5.19M USD |
| Margeaux M. King Executive Vice President, Human Resources | 545.77K USD | 47.00K USD | 2.65M USD | 883.78K USD | 534.05K USD | 37.59K USD | 4.70M USD |
| Gregory B. Cook Executive Vice President and President − Institutional Group | 632.10K USD | — | 963.62K USD | 608.96K USD | 841.72K USD | 309.58K USD | 3.36M USD |
FY2025 · From the company's proxy statements to the SEC: what each named executive was paid for the fiscal year, shares and options at their value when granted. The latest filing
Common questions about Ecolab
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