Filed Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2)
Registration Statement No. 333-176082
A filing fee of $141,885.52 based on a $1,238,093,500 maximum aggregate offering price,
calculated in accordance with Rule 457(r), has been transmitted
to the SEC in connection with the debt securities offered by means of this pricing supplement and the
accompanying prospectus and prospectus supplement from Registration Statement No. 333-176082.
This paragraph shall be deemed to update the “Calculation of Registration Fee”
table in that Registration Statement.

 

PRICING SUPPLEMENT NO. 2 Dated June 21, 2012
To Prospectus Dated August 5, 2011 and
Prospectus Supplement Dated September 2, 2011

 

3M COMPANY
Medium-Term Notes, Series F

 

$650,000,000 1.000% Notes due 2017
$600,000,000 2.000% Notes due 2022

 

1.000% Notes due 2017

 

 

 

2.000% Notes due 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Type of Note:

 

Fixed Rate

 

Type of Note:

 

Fixed Rate

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Principal Amount:

 

$650,000,000

 

Principal Amount:

 

$600,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Price to Public:

 

99.539%

 

Price to Public:

 

98.515%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Security Description:

 

SEC-Registered 5-year Fixed Rate Notes

 

Security Description:

 

SEC-Registered 10-year Fixed Rate Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proceeds to Company:

 

99.289% ($645,378,500)

 

Proceeds to Company:

 

98.065% ($588,390,000)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest Rate:

 

1.000% per annum

 

Interest Rate:

 

2.000% per annum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Original Issue Date:

 

June 26, 2012

 

Original Issue Date:

 

June 26, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maturity Date:

 

June 26, 2017

 

Maturity Date:

 

June 26, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest Payment Dates:

 

June 26 and December 26 of each year, commencing December 26, 2012

 

Interest Payment Dates:

 

June 26 and December 26 of each year, commencing December 26, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Redemption:

 

Not redeemable

 

Redemption:

 

Not redeemable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day Count Convention:

 

30/360

 

Day Count Convention:

 

30/360

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Form:

 

DTC, Book-Entry

 

Form:

 

DTC, Book-Entry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CUSIP/ISIN:

 

88579Y AE1 / US88579YAE14

 

CUSIP/ISIN:

 

88579Y AF8 / US88579YAF88

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selling Concession:

 

0.150%

 

Selling Concession:

 

0.250%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reallowance:

 

0.075%

 

Reallowance:

 

0.125%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Underwriters:

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

 

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

 

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

 

Barclays Capital Inc.

 

 

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated

 

 

UBS Securities LLC

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Use of Proceeds:

 

The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the sale of the notes for general corporate purposes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplemental Information Concerning Plan of Distribution:

 

On June 21, 2012 the Company agreed to sell to the underwriters listed below, and they severally agreed to purchase, the principal amounts of notes set forth opposite their respective names below at a net price of 99.289% for the notes due 2017, and at a net price of 98.065% for the notes due 2022. The purchase price for the notes equals the stated issue price of 99.539% less a combined management and underwriting commission of 0.250% of the principal amount of the notes due 2017, and the stated issue price of 98.515% less a combined management and underwriting commission of 0.450% of the principal amount of the notes due 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

Name

 

Principal Amount of
Notes
due 2017

 

Principal Amount of
Notes
due 2022

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

 

$

162,500,000

 

$

150,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

 

162,500,000

 

150,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

 

162,500,000

 

150,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barclays Capital Inc.

 

32,500,000

 

30,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

 

32,500,000

 

30,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

 

32,500,000

 

30,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

 

32,500,000

 

30,000,000

 

 

Incorporated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

UBS Securities LLC

 

32,500,000

 

30,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

 

$

650,000,000

 

$

600,000,000

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Certain of the underwriters and their affiliates have provided in the past to the Company and its affiliates and may provide from time to time in the future certain commercial banking, financial advisory, investment banking and other services for the Company and such affiliates in the ordinary course of their business, for which they have received and may continue to receive customary fees and commissions. In addition, certain of the underwriters and their affiliates are lenders under the Company’s credit agreement dated August 5, 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the ordinary course of their various business activities, the underwriters and their respective affiliates have made or held, and may in the future make or hold, a broad array of investments including serving as counterparties to certain derivative and hedging arrangements, and may have actively traded, and, in the future may actively trade, debt and equity securities (or related derivative securities), and financial instruments (including bank loans) for their own account and for the accounts of their customers and may have in the past and at any time in the future hold long and short positions in such securities and instruments. Such investment and securities activities may have involved, and in the future may involve, securities and instruments of the Company.

 

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