William Grainger: The Secret To His Success?

By 1937, when annual sales hit $1 million, the company had sales offices around the country. In 1968, as sales passed $100 million and the company began to sell stock to the public, william. In the late 1920s, william w. He set up an office in. 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.

In addition to his wife, mr. Grainger is survived by a son,.