Company: GWW
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-021496
Chunk: 38

Company: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 38
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 reported is five percent or more of the total outstanding common shares. (3) Based on information provided in a Schedule 13G/A filed on January 29, 2025, Ms. Slavik Williams has sole voting power with respect to 2,785,700 shares, shared voting power with respect to 8,342 shares, sole dispositive power with respect to 2,785,700 shares and shared dispositive power with respect to 1,644,102 shares. Ms. Slavik Williams’ aggregate beneficial ownership of 2,794,042 shares excludes 1,029,384 shares held in trusts over which Ms. Slavik Williams has no dispositive or voting power. (4) Based on information provided in a Schedule 13G/A filed on January 25, 2024, BlackRock, Inc. has sole dispositive power with respect to all of the shares, and sole voting power with respect to 3,546,622 shares. Various non-person entities have the right to receive or the power to direct the receipt of dividends or the proceeds from the sale of Grainger’s common stock. No one person’s interest in the Grainger common stock is more than five percent of the total outstanding common shares. Security Ownership of Directors and Management The table below shows the ownership of Grainger common stock by each Director nominee, each of our NEOs, and all Director nominees and all executive officers as a group, as of February 28, 2025 except as otherwise noted below. Beneficial ownership is broadly defined by the SEC. In general, a person beneficially owns securities if the person, alone or with another, has voting power or investment power (the power to sell) over the securities. Being able to acquire either voting or investment power within 60 days, such as by exercising stock options, also results in beneficial ownership of securities. Unless otherwise indicated in the footnotes following the table, each of the named persons had sole voting and investment power with respect to the indicated number of Grainger shares.

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