Grainger's Distributor Alliance (DA) program provides customers with a solution to support small, diverse, disadvantaged, veteran, service-disabled veteran, minority and women-owned businesses. As of late July 2016, the DA program has about 70 partnerships with small diverse businesses that provide services and resell products from Grainger to help its end customers meet their diversity goals.
Grainger is No. 3 on Industrial Distribution's 2016 Big 50 List.