---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000277135-25-000082"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GWW"
cik: "0000277135"
company_name: "W.W. GRAINGER, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-21T06:16:34.839288+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.25
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grainger shareholders approve elimination of cumulative voting; effective May 9, 2025

## Summary
- Shareholders voted on April 30, 2025 to amend Restated Articles of Incorporation to eliminate cumulative voting.
- Amendment and conforming bylaw changes became effective May 9, 2025.
- No financial or operational impact disclosed; governance change only.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000277135-25-000082
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GWW
- cik: 0000277135
- company_name: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-15T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.25
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.25
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000027713525000082/0000277135-25-000082-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000027713525000082/gww-20250515.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000277135-25-000082.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  W.W. GRAINGER, INC.: Adopted conforming changes to Article II, Section 12 and Article III, Section 14 of the Restated By-laws to reflect the elimination of cumulative voting (effective 2025-05-09).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-09
  source text: The Board has also taken action to adopt certain conforming changes to Article II, Section 12 and Article III, Section 14 of the By-laws (“Restated By-laws”), to reflect the elimination of cumulative voting as described in Proposal 4 of the Company’s Proxy Statement, which amendments became effective as of the effectiveness of the Amendment.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000027713525000082/0000277135-25-000082-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  W.W. GRAINGER, INC.: Amended Article Ten of the Restated Articles of Incorporation to eliminate cumulative voting (effective 2025-05-09).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-09
  source text: As a result of the shareholders’ approval of the proposal, effective May 9, 2025, the Company has amended Article Ten of the Restated Articles of Incorporation as described in Proposal 4 of the Company’s definitive proxy statement dated March 7, 2025 (the “Proxy Statement) to eliminate cumulative voting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000027713525000082/0000277135-25-000082-index.htm

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