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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000277135-25-000179"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GWW"
cik: "0000277135"
company_name: "W.W. GRAINGER, INC."
filed_at: "2025-12-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:25:16.368018+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.0
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.0
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grainger amends bylaws to modernize virtual meeting provisions

## Summary
- Board approved By-Law amendments on December 10, 2025, effective immediately.
- Changes clarify and enable virtual annual shareholder meetings and remote communications.
- Outdated terminology removed and provisions updated for modern governance practices.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000277135-25-000179
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GWW
- cik: 0000277135
- company_name: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-12-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.0
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.0
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000027713525000179/0000277135-25-000179-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000027713525000179/gww-20251210.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000277135-25-000179.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  W.W. GRAINGER, INC.: Amendments to By-Laws to modernize provisions relating to virtual annual shareholder meetings and remote communications and to update or remove outdated terminology (effective 2025-12-10).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-12-10
  source text: On December 10, 2025 (the “Effective Date”), the Board of Directors of W.W. Grainger, Inc. (the “Company”) approved amendments to the Company’s By-Laws (the “By-Laws”), effective as of the Effective Date. The amendments reflect updates to modernize and clarify certain provisions relating to virtual annual shareholder meetings and remote communications and update or remove outdated terminology.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000027713525000179/0000277135-25-000179-index.htm

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