Company: GWW
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-021496
Chunk: 31

Company: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 31
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50% from a 2018 baseline, up from the previous 30% target. This new goal aligns scope 1 and scope 2 emissions reductions with the level sought to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Social Grainger believes a broad talent pool is essential to live its principles, foster innovation, build high-performing teams and drive business results. The Company understands that future business success requires a mix of current and new skill sets, multiple experiences, and a broad array of backgrounds and perspectives, and strives to reflect this in its hiring, retention and promotion practices. The Company aspires to increasingly promote a welcoming, inclusive culture that values all people. As of December 31, 2024, within Grainger’s U.S. workforce, approximately 42% of team members were women and approximately 39% of team members were racially and ethnically diverse. The Company works collaboratively with various community partners through a combination of resources, including in-kind donations, a nonprofit board placement program, team member volunteerism and our three-to-one Matching Gifts Program. The Company takes steps to help ensure that the products it distributes are manufactured with high ethical standards through a Supplier Code of Ethics and Human Rights Principles. The Company’s Supplier Code of Ethics, which is also included in the Company’s Business Conduct Guidelines, focuses on responsible sourcing along the dimensions of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. The Company’s Human Rights Principles include the Company’s commitment to providing a safe and fair workplace that upholds and respects international human rights standards. These principles are approved and monitored regularly by senior leadership. The Company’s Supplier Code of Ethics and Human Rights Principles are available under “Governance” in the Investor Relations section of our website at http://invest.grainger.com . ESG Reporting The Company continues to evolve its ESG program and reporting in a manner that it believes is beneficial to the Company and its investors. As part of this commitment, Grainger aligns its disclosures to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures frameworks. Grainger also reports to and participates in third-party assessments and ratings. Since 2011, Grainger publishes an annual Environmental, Social & Governance Report (the “ESG Report”) available under “ESG” under “Governance” in the Investor Relations section of our website at http://invest.grainger.com.

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