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SEC FORM 3 SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person^*

Stetz Gordon McKenzie JR

(Last)

(First)

(Middle)

18 LOVETON CIRCLE

(Street)

SPARKS

21152

(City)

(State)

(Zip)

2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
11/22/2005

3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
MCCORMICK & CO INC [ MKC ]

4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

	Director	10% Owner
X	Officer (give title below)	Other (specify below)
Executive Vice President & CFO

5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)

6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)

X	Form filed by One Reporting Person
	Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Common Stock - Voting	10,917.79	D
Common Stock - Voting	973.2753	I	401(k)
Common Stock - Non Voting	5,496.307	D

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares	4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Options - Right to Buy	01/22/2003⁽¹⁾	01/21/2012	Common Stock - Voting	10,500	21.38	D
Options - Right to Buy	01/22/2003⁽¹⁾	01/21/2012	Common Stock - Non Voting	1,460	21.38	D
Options - Right to Buy	01/28/2004⁽¹⁾	01/27/2013	Common Stock - Voting	15,750	22.26	D
Options - Right to Buy	01/28/2004⁽¹⁾	01/27/2013	Common Stock - Non Voting	5,250	22.26	D
Options - Right to Buy	01/27/2005⁽¹⁾	01/26/2014	Common Stock - Voting	21,000	30.6	D
Options - Right to Buy	01/27/2005⁽¹⁾	01/26/2014	Common Stock - Non Voting	7,000	30.6	D
Options - Right to Buy	01/25/2006⁽¹⁾	01/24/2015	Common Stock - Voting	12,300	38.35	D
Options - Right to Buy	01/25/2006⁽¹⁾	01/24/2015	Common Stock - Non Voting	4,100	38.35	D
Options - Right to Buy	02/28/2007⁽¹⁾	02/27/2016	Common Stock - Voting	6,450	32.83	D
Options - Right to Buy	02/28/2007⁽¹⁾	02/27/2016	Common Stock - Non Voting	2,150	32.83	D
Options - Right to Buy	03/28/2008⁽¹⁾	03/27/2017	Common Stock - Voting	5,550	38.28	D
Options - Right to Buy	03/28/2008⁽¹⁾	03/27/2017	Common Stock - Non Voting	1,850	38.28	D
Restricted Stock Units	⁽²⁾	⁽²⁾	Common Stock - Voting	1,428	⁽³⁾	D
Restricted Stock Units	⁽²⁾	⁽²⁾	Common Stock - Non Voting	476	⁽³⁾	D
Restricted Stock Units	⁽²⁾	⁽²⁾	Common Stock - Voting	1,224	⁽³⁾	D
Restricted Stock Units	⁽²⁾	⁽²⁾	Common Stock - Non Voting	408	⁽³⁾	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. Twenty-five percent (25%) of the option grant becomes exercisable at each of the first four (4) grant anniversaries.

2. The reported Restricted Stock Units entitle the reporting person to receive, on each of the first and second grant anniversaries a distribution of common stock equal to 50% of the grant. Once vested, the Restricted Stock Units are settled in an equal number of shares of Common Stock.

3. Each Restricted Stock Unit repersents a contingent right to receive one share of Common Stock.

Remarks:

	Sonia Cudd, Attorney-in-fact	11/05/2007
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY



Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints

each of Robert W. Skelton, W. Geoffrey Carpenter and Sonia Cudd, the

undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact:



(1) to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's

capacity as an officer and/or director of McCormick & Company, Incorporated (the

"Company"), Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities

Exchange Act of 1934, and the rules thereunder, and Form 144 in accordance with

the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933;



(2) to do and perform such acts for and on behalf of the undersigned as may be

necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5, and

Form 144, and timely file such forms with the United States Securities and

Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and



(3) to take such other actions as such attorney-in-fact, on advice of counsel,

may deem to be of benefit to, in the best interests of, or legally required by,

the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such

attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney

shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such

attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.



The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and

authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,

necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers

herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or

could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,

hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such

attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be

done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein

granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in

serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,

nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply

with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or the undersigned's

responsibilities to comply with the Securities Act of 1933.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the

undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5, and/or Form 144,

with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities

issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed

writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be

executed as of this 14th  day of October, 2007.

/s/ Gordon M. Stetz