Ecolab

A trusted partner for millions of customers, Ecolab (NYSE:ECL) is a global leader in water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services that protect people and the resources vital to life. For more than a century, Ecolab has advanced innovation by integrating science-based solutions, data-driven insights, AI technology and world-class service. This unique combination enables Ecolab to partner with customers to define what best-in-class looks like and scale it across their operations, helping them achieve peak performance. At Ecolab, this is what we do best. Building on a century of innovation, our 48,000 associates support millions of customers in more than 170 countries around the world. We deliver comprehensive science-based solutions, data-driven insights and world-class service to advance food safety, help maintain clean and safe environments, optimize energy use and implement smart water management strategies. From restaurants and hotels to power and manufacturing facilities, Ecolab’s more than 25,000 sales-and-service associates, the industry’s largest and best-trained direct sales-and-service force, help customers solve their cleaning, sanitizing, energy management and water conservation challenges. Many of the world’s most recognizable brands rely on Ecolab to help ensure operational efficiencies, product integrity and brand reputation. Ecolab’s ultimate competitive advantage is found in our industry-leading sales-and-service force. Every customer challenge is unique, which is why our 25,000 field associates partner with customers in their facilities, providing personalized consultation and service. Our experts employ a rigorous process to gather data, apply advanced technology, rethink processes and provide solutions to address our customers’ unique economic, social, water and environmental challenges. Ecolab has a long history of innovation . Our strategy is based on chemistry, digital technology and service to deliver exponential customer value. Our team of 1,100 scientists, engineers and technical specialists create best-in-class solutions that are responsibly sourced and developed with close attention to human and environmental impact. With our expertise in core technologies including antimicrobials, dispensing and monitoring, personal and environmental hygiene, polymers, surfactants, solid chemistry, water resource management and data analytics, we help improve operational efficiency, product quality and safety for our customers. We are united by our purpose to make the world cleaner, safer and healthier – helping customers succeed while protecting people and the resources vital to life. We are a global leader in water conservation strategies, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services that help protect people, plant and business health. Ecolab is growing fast by growing our impact with high-performing teams. Together with our customers and suppliers, we are focused on continuing our positive performance into the future. Learn how Ecolab partners with our global customers to deliver comprehensive solutions, data-driven insights and on-site service to promote safe food, maintain clean environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies. our Seasons is focused on increasing operational efficiencies while embracing environmental best practices across its po... Nestlé is committed to achieving efficiencies that fuel value creation to accelerate profitable growth while supporting ... The AES Andes Ventanas plant achieved substantial savings in energy, costs, maintenance and labor via 3D TRASAR™ Technol... Linde Gases (Yantai) was looking for solutions that would improve operational efficiencies, meet regulatory requirements... In partnership with Ecolab, Sodexo North America has optimized its operations and achieved water, energy and waste reduc... Working with Ecolab, Sysco deployed a suite of solutions aimed at increasing operational efficiencies,

Our business is to be a leading innovator, developer and marketer of worldwide services, products and systems, which provide superior value to our customers in meeting their cleaning, sanitizing and maintenance needs, while conserving resources and preserving the quality of the environment and providing a fair profit for our shareholders. Key Dates: Pierson M. 'Sandy' Grieve is named CEO; Apollo subsidiary is shut down. Company sells its consumer dishwashing detergent unit, and purchases lawncare servicer ChemLawn for $376 million. Kay Chemical, maker of cleaning and sanitizing products for the fast-food industry, is acquired. Company acquires Australia-based Gibson Chemical Industries Limited for $130 million; company enters the commercial car wash cleaning products sector. GCS Service Inc., provider of repair services for commercial kitchen equipment, is acquired. Ecolab Inc. is a leading supplier of cleaning, sanitizing, and maintenance products and services for the institutional, hospitality, healthcare, and industrial markets. The company's institutional division, which is its largest unit, provides cleaners and sanitizers for washing dishes, glassware, utensils, and other kitchen equipment and for laundering needs to restaurants, lodgings, and educational and healthcare institutions. Other Ecolab units offer water and wastewater treatment programs, commercial pest elimination and prevention, and kitchen equipment repair services. The company operates in virtually every country in the world either directly, or through distribution and licensing agreements, or via its Henkel-Ecolab joint venture with the German firm Henkel KGaA. Through its 'Circle the Customer--Circle the Globe' strategy, Ecolab aims not only to be a worldwide operator but also to offer a full range of products and services to its core customers. In the 1950s the company's product line grew to include consumer detergents and institutional cleaning specialties for restaurants, food processors, and dairies. This area of business came to represent the cornerstone of the company's success; between the years 1970 and 1980 the chemical specialties business quadrupled, generating $640 million by the end of the ten-year period. Yet early in its history the company actively pursued customers outside of the consumer and institutional markets. By purchasing the Magnus Company in the early 1950s, Economics Laboratory gained access to the industrial specialty market. Magnus's primary business, the selling of cleaning and specialty formulas to numerous industries, including pulp and paper, metalworking, transportation, and petrochemical processing, contributed $12.1 million in sales during 1973. Meanwhile, international expansion began in the 1950s, with the establishment of the company's first overseas subsidiary in Sweden in 1956. The company grew large enough by 1957 to become a public corporation. Earnings per share rose higher than an average 15 percent annually for the next 20 years. The mid-1960s marked a high point in the company's history as earnings grew 16 percent every year. This was exceeded only by a three-year performance between 1974 and 1977, in which profits eventually reached a 19 percent growth rate. By 1973 Economics Laboratory was divided into five divisions. The Magnus division produced items for the industrial market, while the institutional division manufactured dishwasher products and sanitation formulas. In the consumer division, home dishwasher detergent as well as coffee filters, floor cleaners, and laundry aids were produced. The Klenzade division provided specialty detergents to the food processing industry (Klenzade had been acquired in 1961). Overseas sales were controlled by the international division, founded by future chairman and chief executive officer Fred T. Lanners, Jr., who, it was said, paid his first employees out of his own expense account. Of all the company's products, detergents for household dishwashers became