Wholesale and Distribution

Wholesale

The Wholesale Trade sector comprises establishments engaged in wholesaling merchandise, generally without transformation, and rendering services incidental to the sale of merchandise.
The wholesaling process is an intermediate step in the distribution of merchandise. Wholesalers are organized to sell or arrange the purchase of sale of (a) goods for resale (i.e. goods sold to other wholesalers or retailers), (b) capital or durable nonconsumer goods, and (c) raw and intermediate materials and supplies used in production.
Wholesale/ contains sites of companies of whose primary focus is to purchase goods and merchandise from producers and manufacturers and to sell them to re-sellers in bulk.

Wholesale_Trade

Wholesale/ lists the sites of companies which concentrate to the definition (a) above.

Companies that also sell to the general public will be considered in the Wholesale category only if those sales are a MINOR part of company''s trading. Double listing in both Shopping/ and other Business/ categories will be extremely rare and considered on a case by case basis.

NO company whose primary focus is to sell to the general public will be listed.

These are also sites of which the primary focus is to allow the consumer to select and obtain goods and services over the Web belong to the Shopping and shall NOT be listed here.

NO company that produces or manufactures goods will be listed in this category.

No sites are listed at the top level of Wholesale.