---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-021958"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GWW"
cik: "0000277135"
company_name: "W.W. GRAINGER, INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T19:36:55.592949+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Grainger shareholders eliminate cumulative voting; Levenick retires, Santi becomes Lead Director

## Summary
- Shareholders approved elimination of cumulative voting: 38.3M for, 1.1M against, 1.1M abstentions.
- All 12 director nominees elected; Ernst & Young ratified as auditor; say-on-pay approved.
- Stuart Levenick retired at term expiration; E. Scott Santi appointed Lead Director effective April 30.
- Rodney Adkins moved to Audit Committee; Beatriz Perez became Compensation Committee Chair.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-021958
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GWW
- cik: 0000277135
- company_name: W.W. GRAINGER, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000162828025021958/0001628280-25-021958-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000162828025021958/gww-20250502.htm

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