Ecolab has been in business for over 80 years and has grown from a single product company to a global leader in cleaning, sanitizing and service solutions. Ecolab serves customers in over 160 countries through direct sales and services, distributors and export activities. In the US, Ecolab has 10 complementary business units that provide services and products for institutional facilities, restaurants, pest elimination, food and beverage plants, laundries, and more. Ecolab's goal is to deliver outstanding results for customers and shareholders around the world.

1. GO Overview Ecolab
Ecolab has been going strong for Services/Products
Provided
more than 80 years. The last eight
Institutional Textile Care
decades have seen Ecolab grow
Products, programs and services for the Cleaning and sanitizing products, programs and
from a one-product shop to the foodservice, hospitality and healthcare industries, services, including water and energy recycling
leading global partner for including warewashing, on-premise laundry, solutions and data management systems, for
housekeeping, water filtration and conditioning, commercial laundries serving the work wear, linen
cleaning, sanitizing and service
food safety products, specialty kitchen and laundry and healthcare markets.
solutions. We are the trusted products, and pool and spa management.
source for “clean” among Vehicle Care
Kay Cleaning and treatment products and programs for
restaurants, hotels, hospitals, food
Cleaning and sanitizing products, services and professional conveyor, in-bay and self-service car
and beverage plants, laundries, training programs for quickservice restaurants, wash operations and corporate-owned
retail facilities, and commercial, food retail markets, movie theaters and transportation fleets.
convenience stores.
industrial and educational
Water Care Services
institutions. Pest Elimination Water treatment programs for boilers, cooling
Service and technology for the detection, water and waste treatment systems.
identification, elimination and prevention of pests
Wherever you go, Ecolab is there.
in commercial facilities, as well as food safety
We serve customers in more than auditing and training services.
160 countries through our direct
Food & Beverage
sales-and-service force,
Cleaning and sanitizing products, equipment,
distributors and export activities. systems and services for the agribusiness,
In the United States, we have 10 beverage, brewery, pharmaceutical, dairy, meat,
poultry and food processing industries.
complementary business units:
Institutional, Kay, Pest Elimination, Professional Products
Food & Beverage, Professional Janitorial cleaning and floor care products,
systems and services for the retail, building
Products, Healthcare, GCS
services and industrial markets.
Service, Textile Care, Vehicle Care
and Water Care Services. We con- Healthcare
Products and services including healthcare
tinue to expand many of these
personnel hand wash, surgical scrubs, cleaning
services to markets throughout the and disinfection products used in processing
world, delivering our Circle the surgical instruments, and hard surface disinfection
for acute care hospitals, clinics, long-term care
Customer - Circle the Globe
facilities and nursing homes.
promise.
GCS Service
Service and parts for the repair and maintenance
All of these actions are focused on
of commercial foodservice equipment.
fulfilling our main goal:
outstanding results for Ecolab’s Note: All product names and certain information
customers and shareholders appearing in italic type in the text of this Annual Report
are trademarks, brand names, service marks or
everywhere. copyrighted material of Ecolab Inc., Kay Chemical
Company or Ecolab GmbH & Co. OHG.