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

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

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

Right now, US inventories held by manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers are valued at around 1.7 trillion or about 10 of annual GDP.

The main market players related to distribution are consumers, retailers, wholesalers and other intermediaries, as well as suppliers of goods and other services.

Some distribution markets have developed along vertical division lines, with specialized retailers and wholesalers around each product, for example in the brand name or automobile markets.

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.

Drugstores, wholesalers calling.

Tourists, sailors, wholesalers!

The role of wholesalers in developed countries tends to be more pronounced where small retailers command a larger share of the market, as in the case of Japan.

Wholesalers collate, store and disburse products.

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.

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.

Wholesalers perform both physical and trading functions.

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

Informal retailers could become the suppliers or the customers of formal retailers, or their franchises.

And other retailers followed by opening their stores.

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

Eventually, they themselves become formal retailers.

The dominant market position of large retailers has been strengthened through cross border buying alliances among nominally independent retailers.

Retailers are distributors selling to end consumers.

Farmers and wholesalers gather in several floating markets in a region that resembles the floating market of Thailand.

That s exciting news to retailers looking for new markets.

The retailers have kind of quashed this notion though.

By 2002, the world's top 30 retailers were active in 88 countries, nearly 70 per cent more than in 1997, and the overseas expansion of major retailers is constantly increasing.

The combined company should report to the KFTC all its records of transactions with liquor wholesalers.

Its membership consists of growers, product marketing organizations and growers' cooperatives, food manufacturers and retailers.

I'd put out feelers to retailers, to auctioneers, and it was coming up empty.

Retailers and mass merchants often, though not always, get their products supplied through distributors.

Further, the Commission's investigation established that Panamco Tica was lending refrigerators to retailers and attaching exclusivity clauses to the contracts, which required retailers to use the refrigerator for Coca Cola products exclusively.

They are either broad line distributors, dealing with a wide range of products, or product specialized wholesalers.

Retailers operating internationally can also resort to so called transfer pricing.

Villagers from the region come by small boats to sell their guava and wholesalers collect them to distribute all over Bangladesh.

Small retailers can, however, find niche markets, such as serving convenience needs and local tastes.

Exporters of textiles and clothing in developing countries often face uneconomical demands by these retailers.

Retailers could exercise their power in setting prices at the local level.

Retailers are able to access and tap different cost structures in different countries and are becoming global.

It employs more than 90 of the workforce and is home to 75 of the retailers.

Most of the food reaches consumers, especially in urbanized societies, through processors, distributors, packers and retailers.

These goods are sold to local consumers via car dealers and a whole chain of traders and retailers.

This affected all the producers, distributors, and retailers whose plans and contracts were based on now obsolete expectations.

Other experts stressed that modern retailers usually integrated backwards and could then help improve manufacturing processes and packaging.

On the contrary, most European top retailers have operations outside the home country.

Other initiatives included granting duty free concessions to retailers of popular tourism items.

In the case of Greece and Portugal, for example, the tourism industry might absorb some unemployed retailers.