Company: GWW
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-021496
Chunk: 12

Company: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 12
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 of meetings of the Board and of the Committees on which they served. This strong attendance, in addition to high engagement levels amongst our Directors, underscores that our processes designed to ensure our Directors are not overcommitted remain effective. Annual Election of Directors The Company’s Directors are elected for a one-year term each year at the annual meeting of shareholders. Each nominee will, therefore, serve until the 2026 annual meeting of shareholders (the “2026 Annual Meeting”) if elected or until as otherwise provided in the Grainger By-laws (the “By-laws”) or the nominating resolution. Twelve Director nominees, all current Board members, have been nominated by the Board for election. Mr. Levenick will not stand for re-election. Majority voting and cumulative voting apply to all Director elections. Under our majority voting standard, Directors are elected by vote of a majority of the shares of the Company’s common stock present or represented by proxy and entitled to vote at the annual meeting. Under cumulative voting, shareholders have the right to cumulate their votes in the election of Directors. This means that shareholders have a number of votes in the election equal to the number of shares owned multiplied by the number of Directors being elected. Shareholders may cast those votes for the nominees as they choose. For example, all votes may be cast for one nominee, or may be apportioned among two or more nominees. For all other matters except the election of Directors, each share is entitled to one vote. In addition to “For” votes, Shareholders may vote “Against” a Director nominee or elect to “Abstain.” A shareholder’s abstention on a Director nominee will have the same effect as a vote against the election of that Director nominee. Assuming a quorum is present, broker non-votes will not affect the outcome of the vote. If any of the nominees for Director mentioned below should be unavailable for election, a circumstance that is not expected, the person or persons voting your proxy may exercise discretion to vote for a substitute nominee selected by the Board.

| ​ | CORPORATEGOVERNANCE | ​ | ​ | PROPOSAL 1:ELECTION OFDIRECTORS | ​ | ​ | PROPOSAL 2:RATIFY THEINDEPENDENTAUDITOR | ​ | ​ | EXECUTIVECOMPENSATION | ​ | ​ | PROPOSAL 3:SAY ON PAY | ​ | ​ | PROPOSAL 4: APPROVALAND ADOPTION | ​ | ​ | QUESTIONS ANDANSWERS | ​ |