Grainger hosts three-day show in Orlando
The biannual Grainger Show descended on Orlando March 15–17 at the Orange County Convention Center, as 12,000 attendees, mostly invited customers, met with Grainger executives and staff as well as approximately 500 exhibitors –– Grainger suppliers — spanning 450,000 square feet.
Paige Robbins, senior vice president and president, Grainger Business Unit, said the show gives the distirbutor's customers an opportunity to explore what's new and view a wide array of products they may not yet have discovered. The event also facilitates face-to-face meetings among customer and Grainger executives without the distractions of in-office business.
On the show floor, exhibitors featured product demos and dynamic displays. Grainger highlighted its own private label product lines and customer consulting services, plus other value-add services such as:
- Fabrication & Machining
- Facility Maintenance
- Inventory Management
- Managed Safety Footwear Program
- Procurement Process
- Safety
- Sustainability Solutions
Grainger provided customer learning tracks covering topics from supply chain, technology and procurement, and productivity, to safety and sustainability, the labor shortage, emergency preparedness, and government and healthcare issues.
Monday concluded with a private, celebration evening at Sea World.
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