Company: CL
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form Type: 424B2
Source: 0001104659-25-042488
Chunk: 54

Company: COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-30
Form: 424B2
Chunk 54
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is not of material importance to the total business conducted by us and our Subsidiaries as an entirety.

“Principal Domestic Subsidiary” means
(1) each Subsidiary which owns or leases a Principal Domestic Manufacturing Property, (2) each Domestic Subsidiary the consolidated
net worth of which exceeds 3% of Consolidated Net Tangible Assets (as set forth in the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant
to the indenture) and (3) each Domestic Subsidiary of each Subsidiary referred to in the foregoing clause (1) or (2) except
any such Subsidiary the accounts receivable and inventories of which have an aggregate net book value of less than $5,000,000.

“Restricted Property” means and includes
(1) all Principal Domestic Manufacturing Properties, (2) all Instruments of all Principal Domestic Subsidiaries and (3) all
inventories and accounts receivable of ours and our Principal Domestic Subsidiaries.

“Subsidiary” means any Corporation
of which at the time of determination we or one or more of our Subsidiaries owns or controls directly or indirectly more than 50% of
the shares of Voting Stock.

“Voting Stock” means stock of a Corporation
of the class or classes having general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect at least a majority of the board of directors,
managers or trustees of such Corporation, provided that, for this purpose, stock which carries only the right to vote conditionally on
the happening of an event shall not be considered voting stock whether or not such event shall have happened.

Other capitalized terms used but not defined in this prospectus
shall have the meaning given those terms in the indenture.

Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance

We at any time may terminate as to a series of
debt securities all of our obligations (except for certain obligations regarding the defeasance trust and obligations to register the
transfer or exchange of a debt security, to replace destroyed, lost or stolen debt securities and any related coupons and to maintain
agencies with respect to the debt securities) arising under the indenture and the debt securities and coupons of that series. This option
of ours is called a “legal defeasance.” We at any time may terminate as to a series of debt securities, among other obligations,
our obligations arising under the covenant described under “Limitations Upon Liens” above. This