Wholesale and retail trade

Wholesale and retail trade

Wholesale and retail trade, restaurants and hotels

27. Retail and wholesale

The distribution sector includes commission agents, wholesalers and retailers who act as enablers of trade.

Wholesale and retail petrol

Wholesale receipts had the largest gain at 44.5 per cent, followed by retail sales at 10.1 per cent and services at 8.2 per cent.14

Wholesale retail trade and repair of motor cars, motorcycles and personal and household effects

(d) Importation wholesale and retail businesses (foreign country).

Wholesale prices followed trends similar to those of retail prices.

Some products enter the market through wholesalers who in turn distribute the products to a variety of retailers, while in other cases the producer sells directly to the retailer.

Retailers have integrated backwards into wholesale operations, and producers have integrated forward, performing wholesale functions by distributing their products directly to retailers.

Developments in distribution services market Developed countries Distribution services in both retail and wholesale sectors have become a highly concentrated activity in developed countries, and they also play a commanding role in the overall organization of production, with large retailing conglomerates dominating markets.

The services segment of the economy, apart from government services, comprises mostly trade, both wholesale and retail.

In 1994, there were 2,188 registered businesses in the Territory, a drop of 3.8 per cent from 1993, of which retail trade accounted for 874, wholesale trade for 281, service establishments for 480 and transportation for 356 businesses.

Retail trade 353

Commission agents' services, wholesale trade services, retailing services, and franchising

Business can encounter significant barriers when striving to invest in foreign distribution (retail or wholesale) markets.

The retail sector includes two main types of retailers store and non store retailers.

Distribution services are dominated by wholesale and retail services.

The GATS proposals on energy services classification capture services such as wholesale trade services, retailing services and storage services they refer to sales of fuels and wholesale brokerage (CPC 62113) wholesale trade services of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels and related products (CPC 62271) and retailing services of fuel oil, bottled gas, coal, and woods (CPC 63297).

They handle products in bulk but do not own them, delivering them to wholesalers, retailers or other individual users.

New retail plans proposed by different types of industries will lead new retail development into a state of diversified growth.

Retail trade and repair services

In spite of recent developments, retailing continues to be one of the least developed industries in India, and the growth of organized retailing has been much slower than in the rest of the world.

In many developing countries, wholesale sales are considerably smaller in value terms than retail sales, while in most developed countries they tend to be equal.

Tertiary sector Wholesale and retail trade, restaurants and hotels transport, storage and communications finance, insurance, real estate and business services community, social and personal services.

Recently a wholesale retailing operation (Cost U Less) and the first cinema opened in the Territory (the cinema is owned by a Hawaii based operator).

With technology based development, the percentage share of employment in the agriculture sector declines and the shares in the manufacturing, construction, the wholesale and retail trade, etc., show increasing trends.

They cater to retailers and to other wholesalers, and, for example in the food business, to what are called institutional customers , such as restaurants, hospitals, and catering services.

It is primarily a company that manufactures, bottles and resells the finished product to wholesalers and retailers in Costa Rica.

The second important group was manufacturing (14.5 ), followed by construction (12.5 ), community, social and personal services (11.2 ), transport, storage and communication (9.4 ) and wholesale retail trade (8.6 ).

For female workers who suffered occupational injuries diseases, again agriculture dominated with 71.2 followed by the manufacturing 14.7 , community, social and personal services (9.1 ) and wholesale retail trade (3.1 ).

Online retail and supporting logistics is expanding in a wide range of advanced and developing economies. In China, where the expansion is occurring extremely quickly, estimates suggest that only part of the expansion is at the expense of traditional retail.

61. Similarly the share in employment of the wholesale and retail trade increased from 9.4 per cent in 1971 to 12.2 per cent in 1994 and to 13.2 per cent in the first half of 1995.

Retail and wholesale prices of cocaine, in contrast, declined fairly steadily in a similar manner to those of heroin, as shown in figure 9.

Mergers and acquisitions have played an important role in the growing concentration of the retailing industry.

In the total employment by sectors in 1996, services share was 22.6 per cent, Government of Guam 20.2 per cent, retail 19.0 per cent, construction 11.1 per cent, transport and utilities 8.8 per cent, finance, insurance, real estate 3.9 per cent, wholesale 3.3 per cent, manufacturing 2.5 per cent and agriculture 0.5 per cent.11

They operate at the margin between ex factory and wholesale and retail prices.

The process of opening the retail sector in China began in 1992 when foreign investment was allowed in retailing on a trial basis.

On the other hand, other important sectors, such as manufacturing, construction, the wholesale and retail trade and community, social and personal services, show increasing trends in their share of employment.

Total retail sales are approaching the 2.0 billion level, having reached 1.8 billion in 1996.

Only recently, the share of wholesale sales in developed countries began to decline, since part of the value added has been appropriated by producers and large retailers, to the detriment of wholesalers.

The manual provided some guidance on the compilation of data for the wholesale, retail and service trades.

Under this arrangement, Monkhangai will raise funds to support country programme activities, donating 1 per cent of its net profits earned from operations at its multi chain retail and wholesale stores in Ulaanbaatar.