Wholesalers are businesses that sell primarily to other businesses and institutions.
The 1992 sales total is an increase of 42 percent since 1987 for Oregon's wholesalers. Nationwide, wholesale sales rose an estimated 26 percent over the five-year period. Coal and other minerals and ores wholesalers had the greatest percent increase, up 528 percent. Merchant wholesalers continued to be the largest wholesale channel in the state, accounting for 71 percent of total sales in 1992 compared with 66 percent in 1987. Merchant wholesalers take title to the goods they sell.