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   W. W. Grainger, Inc., is an American Fortune 500 industrial supply company founded in 1927 in Chicago by William W. (Bill) Grainger. He founded the company to provide consumers with access to a consistent supply of motors.

2. grainger.illinois.edu › william-graingerWilliam W. Grainger | The Grainger College of Engineering | UIUC

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   William W. Grainger. Pioneer of entrepreneurship and innovation as Founder and Chief Executive of W. W. Grainger, Inc. Honored Posthumously. William W. “Bill” Grainger founded a wholesale electric motor sales and distribution business in Chicago in 1927.

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   • Grainger serves its customers through a network of approximately 598 branches, online channels (such as Grainger.com, KeepStock and eProcurement), and 33 distribution facilities. The company was founded as a supplier for businesses by William Wallace Grainger in 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, and incorporated as W. W. Grainger, Inc., in 1928.

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   What did Grainger sell?

   • The company sold goods primarily through MotorBook, an eight-page catalog, which would become the backbone of the company's name recognition. It contained electrical motors that Grainger himself, his sister Margaret, and two employees would ship.

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   What did Grainger do for a living?

   • An innovative company, Grainger was the first in the industry to implement optical character recognition equipment. The company also installed a national satellite-based digital communication network, introduced the first comprehensive electronic MRO catalog on CD-rom, and launched a website for online ordering.

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   How did Grainger become a company?

   • Although essentially the same business since its inception, Grainger expanded the scope of its services. Starting in 1986, through acquisition and internal development, the company began building specialty distribution businesses that were intended to complement the market position held by Grainger.

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4. www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org › pages › 2686Grainger (W. W.) Inc.

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   Grainger (W. W.) Inc. William W. Grainger, an engineering graduate from the University of Illinois, started an electric motor wholesaling business on West Cermak Avenue in Chicago in 1927. Along with his sister Margaret, Grainger built a business based on mail-order catalog sales.

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5. faq.library.illinois.edu › engineering › faqWho was William Wallace Grainger? - FAQ and Chat

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   Feb 18, 2023 · Feb 18, 2023 2915. William Wallace Grainger was a 1919 graduate of the University of Illinois College of Engineering and the founder of Grainger Industrial Supply in Skokie, Illinois. He served as President and CEO of the company for 40 years until his retirement in 1968, and then on the Board of Directors until his death in 1982.

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   Early History. In the late 1920s, William W. Grainger--motor designer, salesman, and electrical engineer--sought to tap a segment of the market for wholesale electrical equipment sales. He set up an office in Chicago in 1927 and incorporated his business one year later.

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8. www.nytimes.com › 1976/12/05 › archivesThe Sump Pump Nobody Knows - The New York Times

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   Dec 5, 1976 · Motors started the company 47 years ago. William Wallace Grainger, David's father, was an electrical engineer who turned down an opportunity after World War I to make a career as a Navy...

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   President Stanley Ikenberry, Chancellor Michael Aiken, and David Grainger, representing his father, William Wallace Grainger, "pressed assigned areas on a computer touch screen to change a computerized red ribbon into a visual explosion of fireworks".