AWARDS & RECOGNITION

  • Named one of the Fortune 40 Best Stocks to Retire On - Fortune (2009)
  • Named one of the Best Places to Work in Information Technology - Computerworld (2009)
  • Ranked one of the World's Most Admired Companies, No. 2 in Wholesalers: Diversified category - Fortune (2009)
  • Voted # 1 in Facilities Management Services - Today's Facility Manager's Readers' Choice Award (2008)
  • 2008 Corporate Support Award: Nancy Connor, Grainger’s Diversity Procurement Manager was honored with the 22nd Annual Entrepreneurial Women’s Conference.
  • MCM Top 100 - Multichannel Merchant (July 2007)
  • No. 4, Big 50 Distributors - Industrial Distribution (June 2007)
  • No. 3 America's Most Admired Companies, Diversified Wholesalers - Fortune (March 19, 2007)
  • One of America's 100 Most Trustworthy Companies - Forbes (March 2007)
  • 2006 Supplier Performance Award – the U.S. Postal Service.
  • One of 100 Best Corporate Citizens of 2007 - Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine
  • One of BtoB magazine's "10 Great Web Sites" (Sept. 11, 2006)
  • No. 6, The 50 Best Companies to Sell For - Selling Power
  • No. 78, Top 100 Best Companies to Work for in IT – ComputerWorld
  • No. 3, the BIG 50 – Industrial Distribution
  • No. 2, Top 10 Electrical Distributors – Industrial Distribution
  • Among the 100 Best Corporate Citizens 2006 – Business Ethics
  • No. 142, Barron's 500 America's Best Companies
  • Grainger won the coveted "Most Prepared Supplier Award" at the PRIME Advantage conference.
  • The Championing Diversity Award, from Limited Logistics Services..
  • Fortune’s America’s Most Admired Companies 2006 list, in the Wholesalers: Diversified category.
  • No. 1, The 50 Largest Industrial Distributors - The Electrical Distributor Magazine
  • Dividend Aristocrat List - Standard & Poor's
  • No. 16, Top 25 Military-Friendly Employers - G.I. Jobs Magazine
  • 100 Agile Companies - CIO Magazine
  • Best of the Web, Indirect Procurement Category - Forbes
  • No. 1 Industrial Distributor (Annual Sales) - Industrial Distribution Magazine
  • Friendliest Companies to the Military for its Reservist Policy - GI Jobs
  • InformationWeek 500, America's Largest and Most Innovative IT Organizations
  • Director's Award - General Services Administration
  • CIO 100, The World's Most Resourceful Organizations with Use of IT - CIO Magazine
  • NetMarketing 100, Top Business-to-Business Web Sites - B-to-B Magazine
  • Global 1000, The World's Most Valuable Companies – Business Week