Wholesale on a fee or contract basis

This group includes intermediation service activities, in other words, the facilitation of transactions between sellers and buyers for the ordering of goods for a fee or commission without taking ownership of the goods intermediated, including:

• activities of commission agents, commodity brokers and other wholesalers trading on the account of others without owning the intermediated goods at any time
• activities of bringing sellers and buyers together
• activities of undertaking commercial transactions on the account of a principal, including on the internet

This group also includes:

• activities of central purchasing units if they are only intermediaries and do not own the goods
• activities of wholesale auctioneering houses for third-party goods, including internet wholesale auctions

This group excludes:

• wholesale on own account, see 46.2 to 46.9
• activities of commission agents who assume ownership of the goods, even if they are acting in the name of a third party, see 46.2 to 46.9
• intermediation service activities for retail sale, see 47.9
• intermediation service activities for real estate activities, see 68.31
• operation of websites providing searches for goods that link customers to sellers, see the corresponding classes for intermediation service activities
• activities of advertising, market research and public relations, see division 73