In the above wholesaling model, wholesalers take goods on consignment from intermediate-goods producers.
With centralized wholesaling markets, there is also the zero-output equilibrium.
Centralized wholesaling markets are modeled as specialized intermediate-goods terminals.
Centralized wholesaling markets typically may be at their optimal level of production but be subject to occasional precipitous collapses.
The converse is true of handlers that undertake manufacturing or wholesaling functions.
These intermediaries are packing and shipping, manufacturing and processing, and distributing, wholesaling, and brokering organic products, playing a central role in the organic industry.
Their importance to the country's manufacturing and wholesaling sectors has been tacitly recognised during the colonial and post-colonial periods.
This decentralization generates a role for wholesaling in moving intermediate goods to final-product fabricators.