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Value Realized On Vesting Shares

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Ingle Thulin
CEO of 3M Co. Inge Thulin, chairman, president, CEO
Total compensation: $15,620,581 for the year 2015
Salary: $1,448,153
Exercised stock options: $3,562,036
Value realized on vesting shares: $7,556,573
New stock options: 229,364
3M had a busy year closing on three big purchases worth around $3.7 billion, also investing another $1.5 billion in capital improvements including the opening of a new research and development facility in Maplewood.
3M’s overall corporate results for 2015 came in barely on point and Thulin’s bonus was $1.2 million less than he received in 2014. The options that Thulin exercised in 2015 were established in 2006; he realized about $1.3 million less from options exercises than in 2014. What was born as a small-scale mining risk in 1902 has grown into a global capital whose products improve the daily lives of people around the world. When the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. As the company that would grow into 3M was known at the time—began more than a century ago, the five founders had a simple goal: it was to harvest minerals from a mine called Crystal Bay.

3M 's Founding Fathers
Ultimately, the mine didn’t produce enough, but something more important was born that year: the spirit of modernization and association that forms the foundation of today’s 3M. Today’s 3M is responsible for 60,000 products that is used in homes, businesses, schools, and hospitals all around the world.
Today, one third of 3M’s sales come from products that

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