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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001558370-25-007184"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ECL"
cik: "0000031462"
company_name: "ECOLAB INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T02:31:46.830296+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ecolab appoints former McDonald's supply chain chief Marion Gross to board

## Summary
- Marion Gross appointed to Ecolab board effective May 7, 2025; elected at Annual Meeting on May 8, 2025.
- Gross served as EVP Global Chief Supply Chain Officer at McDonald's until retirement in April 2025.
- She will serve on Compensation & Human Capital and Safety, Health & Environment committees.
- Stockholders approved charter amendments limiting officer liability under Delaware law; Restated Certificate filed.
- All 13 director nominees elected; say-on-pay, auditor ratification, and charter amendments all approved.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001558370-25-007184
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ECL
- cik: 0000031462
- company_name: ECOLAB INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 5.03, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837025007184/0001558370-25-007184-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837025007184/ecl-20250507x8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001558370-25-007184.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Marion K. Gross was appointed as Director at ECOLAB INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On May 7, 2025, the board of directors (“Board”) of Ecolab Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), appointed Marion K. Gross as a member of the Board.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837025007184/0001558370-25-007184-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  ECOLAB INC.: Amended Restated Certificate of Incorporation to limit liability of certain officers as permitted by Delaware law and effect other immaterial changes (effective 2025-05-08).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-08
  source text: As disclosed in Item 5.07 below, at the Annual Meeting, the Company’s stockholders approved proposed amendments (the “Amendments”) to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate”) to limit the liability of certain officers of the Company as permitted by Delaware law and to effect other immaterial changes.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/31462/000155837025007184/0001558370-25-007184-index.htm

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