wholesaler

noun

1. A person or company that buys merchandise from manufacturers, importers, or distributors and resells the merchandise to retail businesses and to business and institutional end users.

   “He observed that a wholesaler who supplied my grandfather with goods continued to advertise the implements of a new game, called "Sphairistike."”

   “Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.”

   “Among wholesalers, voluntary and cooperatives carry a far wider range and number of items in private brands than do unaffiliateds.”

   “The packinghouse usually delivers shrimp to a few regular customers, such as breaders, freezers, canners, or wholesalers of fresh shrimp.”

   “Now it seems parent company Anheuser-Busch is taking steps to help wholesalers who have taken a hit.”