Wholesalers are businesses that sell primarily to other businesses and institutions.
The 1992 sales total is an increase of 14 percent since 1987 for Wyoming's wholesalers. Nationwide, wholesale sales rose an estimated 22 percent over the five-year period. Drugs, drug proprietaries, and druggists' sundries wholesalers had the greatest percent increase, up 686 percent. Merchant wholesalers continued to be the largest wholesale channel in the state, accounting for 80 percent of total sales in 1992 compared with 80 percent in 1987. Merchant wholesalers take title to the goods they sell.