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 organised to sell or arrange the purchase or sale of: (a) goods for resale (i.e. goods sold to other wholesalers or retailers),; (b) capital or durable non-consumer goods, and; (c) raw and intermediate materials and supplies used in production.
The Wholesale and Distribution categories contain sites of companies whose primary focus is to purchase goods and merchandise from producers and manufacturers and to sell them to re-sellers in bulk, according to the definition (a) above.

Sites for products that are meant for specific areas with subcategories in Home and Garden should be suggested to the most appropriate sub-category.

Companies that also sell to the general public will be considered in the Wholesale and Distribution 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 in the Wholesale and Distribution category.

Those sites that aim to allow the consumer to select and obtain goods and services over the web belong in a sub-category of Shopping, and shall NOT be listed here.
NO company that produces or manufactures goods will be listed in the Wholesale and Distribution category, under any circumstances. These sites should be suggested to the appropriate sector of the Home and Garden industry, even if that sector does not have a Manufacturing sub-category.
Placement in this category tree should follow the guidance provided by the Business charter.