---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-24-092595"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GWW"
cik: "0000277135"
company_name: "W.W. GRAINGER, INC."
filed_at: "2024-08-26T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T07:45:08.784857+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grainger announces departure of CHRO Matthew E. Fortin

## Summary
- Matthew E. Fortin, SVP and Chief Human Resources Officer, left the company effective August 23, 2024.
- The departure was announced on August 26, 2024; no replacement has been named.
- No reason for Fortin's departure was provided in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-24-092595
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GWW
- cik: 0000277135
- company_name: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-08-26T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000110465924092595/0001104659-24-092595-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000110465924092595/tm2422420d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-24-092595.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Matthew E. Fortin departed as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at W.W. GRAINGER, INC..
  - Action: is no longer with the Company
  - Role: Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
  source text: On August 26, 2024, W.W. Grainger, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Matthew E. Fortin, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer of the Company, is no longer with the Company effective August 23, 2024.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000110465924092595/0001104659-24-092595-index.htm

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