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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The retailers have kind of quashed this notion though.

Retailers are distributors selling to end consumers.

The physical functions include, inter alia transport, which is often subcontracted sorting, de bulking and handling stocking processing and delivery.

Producers are also engaging in direct sales to consumers through on line retailing, bypassing retailers.

The importance of cross border trade has been recognized for some time, but with growing e commerce and the related development of more reliable and versatile technology, as well as declining fixed and operating costs, among other factors, it is expected to gain further in prominence.

Wholesalers perform both physical and trading functions.

I prefer that one there, the son of a wholesaler we do business with.

While the first operates fixed point of sale locations, non store retailers or retailers away from a fixed location reach customers and market merchandise with methods such as broadcasting infomercials , paper and electronic catalogues, door to door solicitation and selling from portable stalls.

Distribution services are dominated by wholesale and retail services.

In both Korea and Japan, large firms entry into the service sector is impeded by restrictive regulation, for which small producers are an influential lobby. Regulation prevents wholesalers from branching downstream into retailing, and vice versa.

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

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.

Some wholesale merchants only organize the movement of goods rather than move the goods themselves.

Distribution services and interests of developing countries in the GATS Distribution services are traded through the four GATS modes of services supply, commercial establishment abroad being the most important one.

In contrast, a retailer has paid no tax on goods under a sales tax system.

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

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

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

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

And it's not just caterers, it's hoteliers, it's retailers, it's anyone who provides services to the public or businesses.

Adjustment among small retailers has come through specialization, and the size of the specialty markets in developed countries has allowed for this adjustment to take place, but in the case of developing countries the size of the market may not allow adjustment of small retailers through specialization.

Growing use by retailers of own brands and discount retailing have also been driving prices down significantly.

In the Colombian market large scale retailers coexist with SMEs, each one serving a different segment of the market.

It takes lots of lawyers and lots of court time, and the retailers decided that would be way too expensive.

On the fully commercial side, the mobile revolution is creating a logistics revolution in farm to retail marketing.

In the context of a market with a high number of small retailers this practice can be seen as a barrier to entry.

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

Small shops play an important role as employers of those who migrate from rural to urban areas, including foreigners, performing a crucial social role that large chains would be unable to perform, since chains require that employees have a certain level of skill.

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

The Government has implemented a special programme (PYMECO) to support small retailers through training in management and distribution processes.

Criminal groups attack the websites of web retailers and Internet payment systems, extorting payment to make the attacks cease.

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

Intermediaries trade on behalf of others, and while some intermediaries handle the goods themselves, as in the case of commission agents, others, brokers for example, sell products without even seeing them.

The government can, say, impose zoning regulations, help small retailers find specialized niches in the market, or provide skills training to displaced workers.