Wholesale trade is an intermediate step in the distribution of merchandise where its main activity is selling new or used goods without transformation on a regular basis to businesses, to institutional users or to other industries regardless of the quantity of transaction. An establishment is considered a WHOLESALER if:
its major and regular clients are businesses, institutions and resellers; and
its major source of sales is derived from businesses, institutions and resellers.
Notes:
Definition from ISIC Rev. 4:
Wholesale refers to the resale (sale without transformation) of new and used goods to retailers, business-to-business trade, such as to industrial, commercial, institutional or professional users, or resale to other wholesalers, or involves acting as an agent or broker in buying merchandise for, or selling merchandise to, such persons or companies. The principal types of wholesale trade businesses are:
merchant wholesalers;
merchandise and commodity brokers;
commission merchants and agents and assemblers; and
buyers and cooperative associations engaged in the marketing of farm products.