wholesale
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He said they opened a store on Fourth Street and Telegraph in Berkeley, then opened another, “then they opened a factory and started selling wholesale, and the business just took off.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
Founded in 1853, Levi’s long operated as a wholesale men’s denim business selling the same rigid jeans it once made for miners during the California gold rush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
Ofgem said the increase had been driven largely by higher wholesale gas prices linked to conflict in the Middle East.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Those included hotels, restaurants, construction companies, manufacturers and wholesale businesses.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
She knew this would make them start pestering their mamas as to when Miss Love would be back and when would the wholesale house ship the orders.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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Production, exports and wholesales of passenger cars in China all hit fresh highs in November compared with the same month in prior years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
But inflation also has been brutal for many shops, services and other businesses, which are often caught between rising wholesales prices and wages and increasingly cost-conscious customers.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
To some extent, the board split reflected different levels of dependence on the imported supplies that Metropolitan wholesales to the Southland.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2018
But Jeff Kightlinger, general manager of the giant Metropolitan Water District, which wholesales water to the six counties of that megalopolis, said there is enough to last the year, even without more rain.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2014
The best intellects, the best business men in the societies, meet in the big centres as directors of federations and wholesales, and they get an all-Ireland view of their industry.
From The National Being Some Thoughts on an Irish Polity by George William Russell
That’s not the narrative being wholesaled by the financial press and investment pundits.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2022
“In a normal situation, there’s some surplus that gets generated when you’re farming,” he said, explaining that the surplus would be wholesaled to other retailers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2021
He has brokered real estate deals in Florida, arranged bank loans in Venezuela, marketed industrial pumps in Thailand, wholesaled shoes in Panama, promoted a building-materials company to Mexican interests and advised transnational financial services firms.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2015
After that, I started a company that wholesaled mobile phones.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2011
Marketing: In our large apple-growing districts the crop is generally wholesaled, either in the orchard or subject to delivery at the railroad, generally in barrels.
From The Apple by Various
Margins for machinery and equipment wholesaling rose 3.5% month over month in April.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
Jefferies also expects Sigma to make improvements in its wholesaling business.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
"Services grew a little, with wholesaling, pubs and restaurants and IT companies all doing well, partially offset by falls in accountancy and business rental & leasing," she added.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2025
Born in 1852, Bruun began to collect coins as a boy in the 1850s and ’60s, years before he began to amass vast riches in the packing and wholesaling of butter.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024
Each Forest is going to be a big and complicated business, like railroading or wholesaling.
From The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White
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