Wholesale & Distribution

Nobody listed here sells to the public. Industrial Supplies and Office Supplies cover what a workplace consumes, Building Materials and Chemical & Raw Materials what it builds with, and Food & Beverage Distribution, Medical Supplies and Clothing & Textile Wholesale their own trades. Ownership is the test that matters: a distributor owns what it sells and carries the inventory risk, while a firm that only moves other people's pallets is listed under Transportation & Logistics.

Industrial Supplies means consumables and spares — fixings, abrasives, PPE — while the machines are under Industrial Equipment. Agricultural Supplies here sells into the resale chain; country stores serving farms direct are under Agriculture & Farming. Cash-and-carries open to the public sit with Retail & E-commerce, and firms that make the goods, not move them, with Manufacturing.