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wholesale

[hohl-seyl] / ˈhoʊlˌseɪl /


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UK consumers are protected from short term spikes on the wholesale gas markets by Ofgem's price cap.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

On Thursday, new data showed August inflation rates on wholesale costs matching forecasts.

From MarketWatch Sep. 10, 2026

Rising wholesale prices tend to herald higher prices for consumers.

From MarketWatch Sep. 9, 2026

The market in the next two days will also get data points on wholesale and consumer inflation.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

Pacioli’s publications reproduce material from Piero’s books wholesale.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

While the company makes most of its money from direct sales at the moment, Yang expects its wholesales business to grow.

From Seattle Times Oct. 9, 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

Equipment wholesaling and transportation logistics are service industries that saw big jumps in the April data, a sign that higher oil prices are transitioning into a “second-order effect,” Helfstein says.

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

About that time they commenced wholesaling, and gradually built up a business from five thousand dollars the first year, to a million dollars.

From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Maurice Joblin




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