On the Record · Ecolab
Ecolab competitors, on the record
The companies whose own annual reports name Ecolab as a competitor, each with the sentence it appears in and the filing it came from.
Who Ecolab names
Ecolab’s annual reports for 2023 to 2025 describe its competition by kind of business and do not name competing companies.
Who names Ecolab
Companies whose own annual reports name Ecolab as a competitor.
Word for word“On a product basis, our principal competitors are Steris, Olympus, Boston Scientific, ASP (a division of Fortiv), Metrex, Ruhof, Ecolab, ERBE, Getinge, SteelCo and Wassenburg.” 10-K for 2020
Word for word“Our major competitors include Rentokil, Ecolab, Anticimex, and numerous other regional and local companies.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“On a product basis, competitors include 3M, Baxter, Boston Scientific, Belimed, Ecolab, Fortive, Getinge, Karl Storz, Olympus, Ruhof, SteelCo, Stryker, Skytron and Wassenburg.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“On a product basis, competitors include 3M, Belimed, Cantel Medical, Ecolab, Getinge, Hill-Rom, Johnson & Johnson, Skytron, and Stryker.” 10-K for 2018
Word for word“While competition includes many smaller independent competitors that make up the majority of the pest control market, our larger, more recognizable competitors include Orkin, Inc. (a subsidiary of Rollins, Inc.), Ecolab, Inc., Rentokil and Anticimex International AB, all of which compete internationally.” 10-K for 2021
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.