Company: GWW
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-015730
Chunk: 79

Company: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 79
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 that will vest on April 1, 2025, 137 RSUs that will vest on April 1, 2026, 137 RSUs that will vest on April 1, 2027, and 711 PSUs that will vest on April 1, 2025, based on the final 2022 PSU performance results from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. (17) Represents 1,106 PSUs that are assumed to vest on April 1, 2026, based on the maximum level of achievement of the performance goals over the three-year performance period from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2025, and 820 PSUs that are assumed to vest on April 1, 2027, based on the maximum level of achievement of the performance goals over the three-year performance period from January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2026.

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Option Exercises and Stock Vested Table

| ​ | Name                              | ​ | ​ | ​ | Option Awards |   |        |                             |   |   |   |   |   |             |                                | ​ | ​ | ​ | Stock Awards |   |        |                            |   |   |   |   |   |             |   | ​ |
| ​ | No. ofSharesAcquiredonExercise(1) |   |   |   | ​             | ​ |      ​ | ValueRealized onExercise(2) |   |   |   | ​ | ​ |           ​ | No. ofSharesAcquired onVesting |   |   |   | ​            | ​ |      ​ | ValueRealized onVesting(3) |   |   |   | ​ |   |             |   |   |
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