UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D. C. 20549

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ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K RELATING TO VOTING TRUST INTERESTS

WITH RESPECT TO SHARES OF COMMON STOCK OF

GRAYBAR ELECTRIC COMPANY, INC.

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Filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the

Securities Exchange Act of 1934

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FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019

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            Names and Addresses of all Voting Trustees (as of March 20, 2020):

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| ﻿         |                            |
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| R. R. Harwood    | 34 North Meramec Avenue         |
| ﻿         | P.O. Box 7231                   |
| ﻿         | St. Louis, Missouri  63177 |
| ﻿         |                            |
| R. C. Lyons      | 34 North Meramec Avenue         |
| ﻿         | P.O. Box 7231                   |
| ﻿         | St. Louis, Missouri  63177 |
| ﻿         |                            |
| W. P. Mansfield  | 34 North Meramec Avenue         |
| ﻿         | P.O. Box 7231                   |
| ﻿         | St. Louis, Missouri  63177 |
| ﻿         |                            |
| D. G. Maxwell    | 34 North Meramec Avenue         |
| ﻿         | P.O. Box 7231                   |
| ﻿         | St. Louis, Missouri  63177 |
| ﻿         |                            |
| K. M. Mazzarella | 34 North Meramec Avenue         |
| ﻿         | P.O. Box 7231                   |
| ﻿         | St. Louis, Missouri  63177 |

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          Address to which communications to the Voting Trustees should be sent:

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 K. M. Mazzarella

 c/o Graybar Electric Company, Inc.

 P.O. Box 7231

 St. Louis, Missouri  63177

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          Title of the securities deposited under the Voting Trust Agreement:

 Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share

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          Exact name of the issuer of such securities, as specified in its charter:

 Graybar Electric Company, Inc.

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          State or other jurisdiction in which such issuer was incorporated or organized:

New York                                                                           

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I.R.S. Employer Identification No.:

13-0794380

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           Address of such issuer's principal executive offices:

 34 North Meramec Avenue

 P.O. Box 7231

 St. Louis, Missouri  63177

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           If the Voting Trust Interests are registered on any national securities exchange, state the name of each such exchange:

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

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The Annual Report Relating to Voting Trust Interests, filed by the Voting Trustees under a Voting Trust Agreement, dated as of March 3, 2017 (the "Voting Trust Agreement"), among the Voting Trustees, participating holders of the Common Stock of Graybar Electric Company, Inc. ("Graybar" or the "Company") and Graybar was filed for years prior to 1982 on Form

16-K, which was discontinued by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Release No. 34-18524, effective May 24, 1982 (the "Release").  In the Release, the Commission indicated that although Form 16-K was being discontinued, voting trusts would continue to be required to file annual reports.  Specific requirements respecting the form of such annual reports were to be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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In response to inquiries to the Deputy Chief Counsel of the Commission's Division of Corporation Finance, Graybar has been informed that the Voting Trustees should file an Annual Report on Form 10-K (as the only appropriate form under Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934), but that because the requirements of Form 10-K are generally not applicable to elicit information relevant to voting trusts, the information previously required by rescinded Form 16-K should continue to be provided in this Annual Report.  For this reason, the item numbers and information in this Annual Report correspond to the item numbers and disclosure required in the past by rescinded Form 16-K and used in the Annual Report Relating to Voting Trust Interests filed with the Commission by voting trustees in years prior to 1982.

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INFORMATION REGARDING VOTING TRUST

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PART I

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Item 1.            Deposit and Withdrawal of Securities (1)(2)(3)

| Amount deposited during year |   | Amount withdrawn during year (4) |          | Amount held at end of year |   | Percentage of class held at end of year |
|------------------------------|--------|----------------------------------|---------------|----------------------------|--------|-----------------------------------------|
| ﻿                     |   |                             |          |                       |   |                                    |
| 2,368,124               |   |                             | 729,610  |                       |   | 17,736,493                         |   |   | 82.9  | % |
| ﻿                     |   |                             |          |                       |   |                                    |

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|  | (1) |  | The securities consist of shares of Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share (the "Common Stock"), of Graybar. |
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|  | (2) |  | 14,011,446 shares of Common Stock were deposited into the 2017 Voting Trust at its inception. |
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|  | (3) |  | Shares deposited and withdrawn during the year only cover shares that were deposited and withdrawn with respect to the Voting Trust Agreement. |
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|  | (4) |  | The 729,610 shares of Common Stock withdrawn from the voting trust in 2019 represent shares purchased by Graybar from employees, retirees or their estates in accordance with Graybar's purchase rights under its amended Restated Certificate of Incorporation. The shares so purchased were placed in Graybar's treasury or cancelled. |
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Item 2.         Exercise of Voting Rights.

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The voting trustees did not exercise voting rights under the Voting Trust Agreement during the fiscal year with respect to any matter, except that the voting trustees voted the shares of Common Stock held by them at the Graybar 2019 annual meeting for the election of ten directors.

 

Item 3.         Exercise of Other Powers.

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The voting trustees exercised no powers under the Voting Trust Agreement, other than voting rights and the distribution of dividends upon the underlying securities, during the fiscal year.

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Item 4.          Ownership of Voting Trust Certificates and Other Securities.

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The following table presents information, as of March 20, 2020, as to Voting Trust Interests owned of record by each individual Voting Trustee.  As of March 20, 2020 no Voting Trustee owned any securities of Graybar, other than those deposited under the Voting Trust Agreement, or any securities of Graybar's subsidiaries.  No other person owns of record, or is known by the Voting Trustees to own beneficially, more than five percent of the Voting Trust Interests.

| Name and address

of owner      |   | Name of issuer

and title of class |   | Type of

ownership |   | Amount owned as of March 20, 2020 |   |   | Percent

of class

owned |   |
|---------------------------------|--------|------------------------------------|--------|--------------------|--------|-----------------------------------|--------|--------|--------------------------|--------|
| R. R. Harwood                   |   | Voting Trust Interests (A)         |   | Direct             |   | 36,065                            | (B)    |   | 0.192%                   | (C)    |
| 34 North Meramec Avenue         |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| P.O. Box 7231                   |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| St. Louis, Missouri  63177 |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| ﻿                        |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| R. C. Lyons                     |   | Voting Trust Interests (A)         |   | Direct             |   | 27,398                            | (B)    |   | 0.146%                   | (C)    |
| 34 North Meramec Avenue         |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| P.O. Box 7231                   |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| St. Louis, Missouri  63177 |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| ﻿                        |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| W. P. Mansfield                 |   | Voting Trust Interests (A)         |   | Direct             |   | 23,429                            | (B)    |   | 0.125%                   | (C)    |
| 34 North Meramec Avenue         |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| P.O. Box 7231                   |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| St. Louis, Missouri  63177 |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| ﻿                        |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| D. G. Maxwell                   |   | Voting Trust Interests (A)         |   | Direct             |   | 25,037                            | (B)    |   | 0.133%                   | (C)    |
| 34 North Meramec Avenue         |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| P.O. Box 7231                   |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| St. Louis, Missouri  63177 |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| ﻿                        |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| K. M. Mazzarella                |   | Voting Trust Interests (A)         |   | Direct             |   | 67,150                            | (B)    |   | 0.357%                   | (C)    |
| 34 North Meramec Avenue         |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| P.O. Box 7231                   |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |
| St. Louis, Missouri  63177 |   |                               |   |               |   |                              |   |   |                     |   |

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(A)  Issued under the Voting Trust Agreement.

(B)  The number of shares of Common Stock to which such Voting Trust Interests relate adjusted for a stock dividend of one share of common stock for each twenty shares of record held as of December 16, 2019 and issued February 7, 2020.

(C)  As of February 29, 2020, the Voting Trustees together held of record, with shared power to vote,

18,806,471 shares of Common Stock, or 82.9% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock.

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Item 5.            Business Experience of Voting Trustees.

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The information with respect to the business experience of the Voting Trustees required to be included pursuant to this Item 5 is included in the Supplemental Item under the caption “Executive Officers of the Registrant”, in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2019 or will be included under the caption "Proposal 1: Nominees for Election as Directors" in Graybar's Definitive Information Statement relating to the 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Information Statement"), to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 14c-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, each of which is incorporated herein by reference.

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Item 6.            Business and Professional Connection of Voting Trustees with Issuer, Affiliates and Underwriters.

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The information with respect to the business and professional connections of each Voting Trustee with Graybar and any of its affiliates is included in the Supplemental Item under the caption “Executive Officers of the Registrant”, in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2019 or will be included under the caption "Proposal 1: Nominees for Election as Directors" in the Information Statement, each of which is incorporated herein by reference.

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Item 7.            Other Activities of Voting Trustees.

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Except as described in this Annual Report, the Voting Trustees did not perform any other activities as voting trustees during the fiscal year.

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 Item 8.            Representation of Other Persons by Voting Trustees.

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The Voting Trustees represented no persons other than holders of Voting Trust Interests under the Voting Trust Agreement during the year.

			 		

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Item 9.            Remuneration of Voting Trustees.

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The following table presents information as to the aggregate remuneration received by each Voting Trustee for services in all capacities during the fiscal year from Graybar and its subsidiaries.  No Voting Trustee received any remuneration from any person or persons for acting as a Voting Trustee.

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| ﻿         |   |                                  |   |                           |            |   |   |
|------------------|--------|---------------------------------------|--------|--------------------------------|-----------------|--------|--------|
| Name of          |   | Capacities in                         |   | Cash Compensation              |            |
| Voting           |   | which Compensation                    |   | Salaries, Bonuses              |            |
| Trustee          |   | Received                              |   | and Directors’ Fees (1) |            |
| R. R. Harwood    |   | Director, Senior Vice President       |   | $                              | 730,107    |   |   |
| ﻿         |   | and Chief Strategy Officer            |   |                           |            |   |
| ﻿         |   |                                  |   |                           |            |   |
| R. C. Lyons      |   | Director, Regional Vice President     |   | $                              | 518,185    |   |   |
| ﻿         |   |                                  |   |                           |            |   |
| W. P. Mansfield  |   | Director, Senior Vice President -     |   | $                              | 689,789    |   |   |
| ﻿         |   | Marketing                             |   |                           |            |   |
| ﻿         |   |                                  |   |                           |            |   |
| D. G. Maxwell    |   | Director, Senior Vice President -     |   | $                              | 643,071    |   |   |
| ﻿         |   | Sales                                 |   |                           |            |   |
| ﻿         |   |                                  |   |                           |            |   |
| K. M. Mazzarella |   | Director, Chairman of the Board,      |   | $                              | 2,478,773  |   |   |
| ﻿         |   | President and Chief Executive Officer |   |                           |            |   |
| ﻿         |   |                                  |   |                           |            |   |

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(1)   Includes meeting fees of $300 per meeting for attendance at directors’ meetings of Graybar and remuneration paid March 13, 2020 under Graybar’s Management Incentive Plan with respect to services rendered during 2019.  Excludes change in pension value, any nonqualified deferred compensation earnings, amounts contributed by Graybar to the qualified and non-qualified profit sharing and savings plans, perquisites and other personal benefits, and other miscellaneous items, which will be included in the Summary Compensation Table of the Information Statement for Ms. Mazzarella and Messrs. Harwood and Mansfield.

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Item 12.          Lists of Exhibits Filed.

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 (4)   Instruments defining the rights of security holders, including indentures.

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﻿Voting Trust Agreement dated as of March 3, 2017, a form of which is attached as Annex A to the Prospectus, dated January 6, 2017, constituting a part of the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-214560), and is incorporated herein by reference.

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SIGNATURES

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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, this Annual Report on Form 10-K, amended as prescribed by the Commission, has been signed below by the following persons, as Voting Trustees, as of March 20, 2020, said Voting Trustees being invested with the power to bind all of the Voting Trustees.

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| ﻿ | As trustees under the Voting Trust Agreement |
| ﻿ | dated March 3, 2017.                         |                 |
| ﻿ |                                         |                 |   |   |
| ﻿ | By                                           |                 |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         | /S/ R. R. HARWOOD    |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         | R. R. HARWOOD        |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         |                 |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         | /S/ R. C. LYONS      |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         | R. C. LYONS          |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         |                 |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         | /S/ W. P. MANSFIELD  |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         | W. P. MANSFIELD      |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         |                 |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         | /S/ D. G. MAXWELL    |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         | D. G. MAXWELL        |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         |                 |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         | /S/ K. M. MAZZARELLA |   |   |
| ﻿ |                                         | K. M. MAZZARELLA     |   |   |

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