This document summarizes retailing and wholesaling in India. Retailing involves directly selling products to end customers for personal use, and is expected to grow 25-30% annually. Retail has organized and unorganized forms and includes sectors like food, clothing, and consumer durables. Wholesaling involves buying large quantities from manufacturers and reselling smaller quantities to retailers. It provides a vital link between manufacturers and retailers. Wholesaling is growing in India due to the potential in retail, manufacturers needing more wholesalers, and companies finding distribution costly.
3. Retailing
‘’Retailing is a business where an organisation directly
sells its products and services to an end costumer for
personal use’’.
With growing market demand, the industry is
expected to grow at the rate of 25-30 % annually.
Retail has two forms organised and unorganised .
4. Retailing sectors in India
• Food and grocery
• Clothing
• Footwear
• Gems and jewellery
• Pharmaceuticals
• Music
• Books
• Consumer durables
5. Importance
• Largest and fastest growing sector in India.
• Modern retailing forms one point stop for all shopping.
• Consumer gets a large product variety of brands to choose
from one roof.
• First it was sellers market and now its changing to buyers
market.
13. Concept
• ‘Wholesale’ means to sell goods in relatively large quantities
• The wholesalers buy goods and commodities in large quantities from
the manufactures for the purpose of further selling them in small
quantities to the retailers.
• Vital link between the manufacturer and the retailer
• Buys in bulk quantities from the manufacturers and resells them to
the retailers in small quantities
• Deals with limited number of products
15. Trends in wholesaling
• Increased services
• Regional coverage
• Productivity and quality
• Global expansion
16. Growth of wholesaling
• Tremendous potential in retail sector
• Manufacturer will need more number of wholesalers
• Development and advancements in the mass production
techniques
• Many companies found distributing very costly
• Thus there is ample scope for the wholesaling activities.