Wholesale Trade
ICSE · Class 11 · Commerce
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Meaning and Definitions of Wholesaler
- Wholesale trade means buying and selling in large quantities.
- A wholesaler buys goods in bulk from producers and sells them in small quantities to retailers.
- A wholesaler is the first link in the chain of middlemen.
Characteristics of Wholesale Trade
- The wholesaler buys goods from producers in bulk quantities.
- The wholesaler deals only in a few and specialised goods.
- The wholesaler sells goods to retailers in small quantities, though sometimes to big customers too.
Functions or Necessity of a Wholesaler
- A wholesaler is necessary because he performs several marketing functions.
- The ten functions are assembling, dispersion, grading, financing, transport facility, market survey, pricing, storing, risk bearing, and providing information.
- Assembling means collecting goods at one place from a number of manufacturers.
Services of Wholesalers
- Wholesalers provide services to producers, retailers, and consumers.
- Services to producers include purchase in large quantities, prompt payment, insurance of sale, better use of capital, economies of large-scale production, warehousing and marketing, advertising, help
- Wholesalers save producers from many small and repeated orders.
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