Wholesalers are businesses that sell primarily to other businesses and institutions.
The 1992 sales total is an increase of 46 percent since 1987 for Michigan's wholesalers. Nationwide, wholesale sales rose an estimated 30 percent over the five-year period. Petroleum products wholesalers except bulk stations and terminals had the greatest percent increase, up 153 percent. Manufacturers' sales branches and sales offices were the largest wholesale channel in the state, accounting for 42 percent of total sales in 1992. Manufacturers' sales branches and sales offices were maintained by manufacturing, refining, and mining companies for marketing their own products at wholesale.