Wholesalers are businesses that sell primarily to other businesses and institutions.
The 1992 sales total is an increase of 21 percent since 1987 for Pennsylvania's wholesalers. Nationwide, wholesale sales rose an estimated 26 percent over the five-year period. Drugs, drug proprietaries, and druggists' sundries wholesalers also had the greatest percent increase, up 95 percent. Merchant wholesalers continued to be the largest wholesale channel in the state, accounting for 52 percent of total sales in 1992 compared with 50 percent in 1987. Merchant wholesalers take title to the goods they sell.