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.