Wholesalers are businesses that sell primarily to other businesses and institutions.
The 1992 sales total is an increase of 31 percent since 1987 for Georgia's wholesalers. Nationwide, wholesale sales rose an estimated 28 percent over the five-year period. Petroleum products wholesalers except bulk stations and terminals had the greatest percent increase, up 141 percent. Manufacturers' sales branches and sales offices were the largest wholesale channel in the District, accounting for 48 percent of total sales in 1992 compared with 51 percent in 1987. Manufacturers' sales branches and sales offices are maintained by manufacturing, refining, and mining companies for marketing their own products at wholesale.