Wholesalers are businesses that sell primarily to other businesses and institutions.
The 1992 sales total is an increase of 29 percent since 1987 for Mississippi's wholesalers. Nationwide, wholesale sales rose an estimated 28 percent over the five-year period. Plastics materials and basic forms and shapes wholesalers had the greatest percent increase, up 258 percent. Merchant wholesalers continued to be the largest wholesale channel in the state, accounting for 77 percent of total sales in 1992 compared with 81 percent in 1987. Merchant wholesalers take title to the goods they sell.