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NAICS code |
Description |
Estab- lish- ments |
Sales
($1,000) |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
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42 | Wholesale trade | 435,521 | 4,634,755,112 | 259,653,080 | 5,878,405 | |
| 425 | Wholesale electronic markets and agents and brokers | 32,415 | 483,159,855 | 9,932,153 | 248,597 | ||
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4251 | Wholesale electronic markets and agents and brokers | 32,415 | 483,159,855 | 9,932,153 | 248,597 | |
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NAICS Title |
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Establish- ments |
Receipts ($1,000) | Establishments | Receipts |
Establish- ments |
Sales ($1,000) | |||||
| Number | % of all | $1,000 | % of all | |||||||
| 42 | Wholesale trade | 799,302 | 4,664,777,063 | 363,781 | 45.5 | 30,021,951 | 0.6 | 435,521 | 4,634,755,112 | |
| 425 | Wholesale electronic markets and agents and brokers | 56,433 | 484,208,517 | 24,018 | 42.6 | 1,048,662 | 0.2 | 32,415 | 483,159,855 | |
| 4251 | Wholesale electronic markets and agents and brokers | 56,433 | 484,208,517 | 24,018 | 42.6 | 1,048,662 | 0.2 | 32,415 | 483,159,855 | |
This NAICS Industry Group includes establishments classified in the following NAICS Industries: 42511, Business to Business Electronic Markets; and 42512, Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers.
NAICS
425, Wholesale electronic markets and agents and brokers,
has no direct counterpart in 1997 NAICS.
See the Bridge Between 2002 NAICS and 1997 NAICS for changes to constituent industries.
In comparisons with data before 1997, 1997 NAICS is comparable to SIC . See the Bridge Between 1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC.
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Data for the Wholesale trade sector are published for the U.S., states, metropolitan areas, counties, and places.




















































| Product code | Product description | Sales of this line ($000) |
Percent of industry sales (%) |
Graph |
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| 10000 | Industry total | 483,159,85 | 100.00 | |
| 10100 | New and used automobiles, motorcycles, and trailers | 85,517,969 | 17.70 | |
| 14860 | Grocery specialties | 37,886,607 | 7.84 | |
| 14100 | Packaged frozen food | 26,914,946 | 5.57 | |
| -Other | 332,840,33 | 68.89 |
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| Hypertext Tables | Title (with link to data) | Frequency | Contents | Geography |
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| Annual Capital Expenditures Survey | Annual | Capital expenditures for structures and equipment for companies with paid employees | US | |
| County Business Patterns | Annual | Employees; payroll; number of establishments by employment size of establishment | US, states, metro areas, counties | |
| Nonemployer Statistics | Annual | Number of establishments and sales of firms with no paid employees | US, states, metro areas, counties |
| Statistics of U.S. Businesses | Annual | Number of firms, employees, payroll, (and revenue, for 2002 only) by employment-size of the enterprise | US, states, metro areas |
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