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Ecolab acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Ecolab bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

Business	Deal	When	Value
Purolite Word for word“On December 1, 2021, we acquired Purolite for total consideration of $3.7 billion in cash, net of cash acquired.” 10-K for 2023	acquisition	On December 1, 2021	$3.7 billion in cash, net of cash acquired
global surgical solutions business Word for word“Further, due to the sale of the global surgical solutions business on August 1, 2024, we have excluded the results of the business for August through December 2023 from these organic measures for the year ended December 31, 2023 to remain comparable to the corresponding period in 2024.” 10-K for 2024	divestiture	August 1, 2024	—
Ovivo's electronics business ("Ovivo Electronics") Word for word“On December 16, 2025, we acquired Ovivo’s electronics business (“Ovivo Electronics”) for total consideration of $1.6 billion in cash.” 10-K for 2025	acquisition	On December 16, 2025	$1.6 billion in cash

As filedReported in the company's financial data (XBRL), each linked to its filing
Fiscal year ended	Cash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired)	Goodwill from acquisitions
2016-12-31	$85 million	$3.7 million
2017-12-31	—	$599.1 million
2018-12-31	—	$84 million
2019-12-31	—	$235 million
2020-12-31	—	$275.7 million
2021-12-31	—	$2.15 billion
2023-12-31	—	$70.1 million
2024-12-31	—	$156.6 million
2025-12-31	—	$1.12 billion

Deal filings since 2016

2026-04-15 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2025-03-28 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-11-10 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-12-10 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-12-01 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2021-11-23 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-10-28 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-08-19 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-04-20 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2020-08-13 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2020-06-09 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2020-03-31 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2020-03-24 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-12-23 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-11-30 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-09-26 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Read from Ecolab’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-02-23. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.