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W.W. Grainger was incorporated in Illinois in 1928 and still runs from Lake Forest, distributing maintenance, repair, and operating supplies to more than 4.6 million customers. It splits into two businesses that reach those customers in opposite ways: High-Touch Solutions North America, the Grainger-branded operation in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico for buyers with complicated needs, and Endless Assortment, the Zoro and MonotaRO online channels in the US and Japan. About 25,000 team members were on the books as 2025 closed, the quarter Grainger left the UK by selling Cromwell and closing Zoro UK.
About 25,000 team members across North America and Japan, working under two different business models with different job structures, is the population an HR analyst here reports on.