Division FWholesale

Division F Wholesale

Division F Wholesale

This Division includes all employers engaged in wholesale trade. The term ‘wholesale trade’ is used here in the broad sense to include the resale (as agents or principals) of new or used goods to businesses or to institutional (including Government) users.

Employers engaged in wholesale trade include wholesale merchants who take title to the goods they sell; commission agents, import and export agents and purchasing agents; petroleum products distributors; and cooperatives and marketing boards engaged in marketing farm products.

Employers who are engaged in wholesale trade, but who do not mechanically or manually handle or store or deliver goods, should be classified in this Division in Class 479920 Wholesale Trade Agent. Employers who mechanically or manually handle or store or deliver goods should be classified in the relevant class in this Division according to the commodity they wholesale.

Employers engaged in reselling their own goods by auction are included in this Division, but employers which are engaged in providing auctioning services for others are included in Division L Property and Business Services.

Employers engaged in wholesaling or marketing goods that they have manufactured, should be classified in the relevant class in Division C Manufacturing.