Company: GWW
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-015730
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Company: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: PRE 14A
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 3: To approve on a non-binding advisory basis the compensation of Grainger’s Named Executive Officers                 | ​ | ​ | ​ | Vote FOR             | ​ |
| ​ | PROPOSAL 4: To approve and adopt the amendment to the Restated Articles of Incorporation to eliminate cumulative voting        | ​ | ​ | ​ | Vote FOR             | ​ |

For additional information about our 2025 annual meeting of shareholders (the “2025 Annual Meeting”), see Questions and Answers beginning on page 79. We will also consider any other matters that may properly be brought before the meeting (and any postponements or adjournments of the meeting). Virtual Meeting We have decided to hold the 2025 Annual Meeting virtually. We believe hosting a virtual annual meeting enables shareholders to attend and participate fully and equally, improves meeting efficiency and our ability to effectively communicate and engage with shareholders regardless of their holdings, resources or physical location, and provides cost savings to the Company. To virtually attend the 2025 Annual Meeting, visit www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/GWW2025 (the “Annual Meeting Website”), and enter the 16-digit control number found on your proxy card or voting instruction form (“Control Number”). You may vote your shares and submit your questions prior to the 2025 Annual Meeting. We will answer questions germane to the Company and the 2025 Annual Meeting. Proxy Materials This 2025 Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders, the following proxy statement, and the accompanying proxy card were first distributed or made available to shareholders on or about March [•], 2025. By order of the Board of Directors, [TO COME] Nancy L. Berardinelli-Krantz
Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer

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Admission Shareholders of W.W. Grainger, Inc. (“Grainger” or the “Company”), as of March 3, 2025 (the “Record Date”), may attend the 2025 Annual Meeting virtually, via webcast format, on April 30, 2025 at 10:00 a.m., Central Time. Voting Shareholders of Grainger, as of the Record Date, are entitled to vote, as follows: • Shareholders have the right to cumulative voting in the election of Directors. For a definition of cumulative voting, see Questions and Answers—Voting Information—What is cumulative voting? How many votes do I have? on page 79; and • Each share of Grainger common stock is entitled to