46.1 — 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