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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ATIFY THEINDEPENDENTAUDITOR | ​ | ​ | EXECUTIVECOMPENSATION | ​ | ​ | PROPOSAL 3:SAY ON PAY | ​ | ​ | PROPOSAL 4: APPROVALAND ADOPTION | ​ | ​ | QUESTIONS ANDANSWERS | ​ | ​ | APPENDICES | ​ |

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| ​ |     | ​ | ​ | Rodney C. Adkins                                                                                                         
 Independent DirectorFormer Senior Vice President, International Business Machines Corporation; President, 3RAM Group LLC | ​ | ​ | Age:66Years on Grainger’s Board:11Director Since:2014Grainger Board Committees:BANC, Chair, CCOB | ​ |

| ​ | Mr. Adkinsserves as President of 3RAM Group, LLC and served as a Senior Vice President at International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”), where he held various senior roles, including heading Corporate Strategy and Systems and Technology. In over 30 years with IBM, he developed a broad range of experience, including extensive experience in emerging technologies, global business operations, product development, and brand management. He also gained significant experience managing and understanding corporate finance, financial statements, and accounting through his many operational roles with IBM. Additionally, Mr. Adkins managed IBM’s supply chain and procurement, giving him direct insight into global trade and supply chains, and the role of distributors in those efforts. 
 Mr. Adkins has extensive experience in corporate governance matters, is a recognized leader in technology and technology strategy, and serves as a director of other publicly traded companies with additional responsibilities, including a board chairmanship and assignments to a compensation committee and an audit committee.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |   |   |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |   |   |                                                                                   | ​ |
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