secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     W.W. GRAINGER, INC. (GWW)
CIK:        0000277135
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-05-05T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001628280-25-021958
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.35
Item codes: 5.07, 8.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

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

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000162828025021958/0001628280-25-021958-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/277135/000162828025021958/gww-20250502.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001628280-25-021958

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